Ch 1 Flashcards
how people feel, think, and behave
Psychological Triad
An individual’s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour, together with psychological mechanisms behind those patterns
an individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
Personality
It’s difficult to explain the whole person in their daily environment and it’s
impossible to definitely say, “this is why I/they did this behaviour.”
How behaviour changes as a result of rewards, punishments, and other life expereinces
Learning
focuses on overt (observable) behaviour
classical behaviourism
how observation + self-evaluation determine behaviour
social learning
focuses on cognitive processes, including perception, memory, and thought
cognitive personality
how people differ psychologically
trait approach (basic approaches)
understand the mind in terms of the body
biological approach (basic approahces)
focus on the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict
psychoanalytic approach (basic approaches)
focus on people’s conscious experience of the world
phenomenological approach (basic approaches)
how conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes; understand the meaning and basis of happiness
humanistic (phenomenological approach)
how the experience of reality might be different across cultures
cross-cultural (phenomenological approach)
competitors or complements? different theories
some theories fills in the gaps that other theories don’t cover and each theory addresses different questions and key concerns
Great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and surprisingly often the opposite is true as well
Funder’s First LAw
