Ch.15, Integration

Question 1

Strageties for understanding behavior

Answer 1

search for meaning in the actions or classify the behavior into preexisting taxonomies/frameworks

Question 2

What theories search for meaning in actions?

Answer 2

Freud/psychodynamics, unconscious processes and compromise between personality systems
Humanistic theories: holistic self-concept and congruence between self and experience
Social-Cognitive: socioculturally acquired skills, beliefs, and self-in context appraisals

Question 3

What theories classify behavior?

Answer 3

Trait theories, behavior classified as a manifestation of a domain-general trait
Evolutionary psychology: behavior linked to domainn-specific psychological mechanisms

Question 4

How is asking what situations mean to people, semiotic?

Answer 4

Semiotic subject is a person for whom the meaning of a situation is the major determinant of his or her response to it

Question 5

Quotidian psychology

Answer 5

psychology of everyday acts and experiences