PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Funny Car, Anal Retentiveness, Toilet Training
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Oral (pleasure focused, suck , dependent, clingy), want to be around people. Anal (toilet training, over and under of it makes you anal retentive) not open to new experiences. Phallic (playing with genitals all the time) oppose others, not stick with what they started with and open to new experiences. Genital( ability to share pleasure) finish what they start and open to new experience and change and not neurotic. Could"ve been more scientific if he defined his terms properly. Falsifiable (resisting, reaction formation, frued would be accused for it) Need was activated by the press which makes you have the drive for understanding. People would be unable to tell you about themselves there biased. Around the 60s people started having a lot of sex. Cognitive (what people are thinking and what they want) Allport didn"t follow freud"s view took whole different direction and succeeded. He describes personality as adjectives (they could all be traits)