Chapter 1 Flashcards
Psychological triad
How people think, feel and behave.
Personality psychologists seek to solve what?
Conflict between the psychological triad
Ex: knowing you should study but going to the beach instead
What is personality?
Personality is an individual’s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms behind that behavior.
What are the basic approaches/paradigms?
The basic approaches are trait, biological, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and learning/cognitive.
What is the trait approach?
The ways that people differ psychologically and how these can be conceptualized, measured and followed over time.
What is the biological approach?
Addresses biological mechanisms such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution, and their relevance for personality.
What is the psychoanalytic approach?
It is the study of the unconscious mind and the nature and resolution of conflict
What is the phenomological approach?
Using human experience and their subjectivity as the primary focus.
What are the two sub branches of the phenomenological approach?
The two sub branches are humanistic psychology and cross-cultural psychology.
What is humanistic psychology?
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness can produce uniquely human attributes such as existential anxiety, creativity and free will.
What is cross-cultural psychology?
Cross cultural psychology emphasizes the degree to which psychology and the experience of reality might be different in other cultures.
What is the learning/cognitive approach?
This approach concentrated on how people change behavior as a result of reward, punishment and other experiences in life or learning.
What are the stages of the learning cognitive approach?
The stages are behaviorism, social learning theory and cognitive personality psychology.
What is behaviorism?
Behaviorism focuses on studying overt behavior and ways it can be affected by rewards and punishments.
What is social learning theory?
Social learning draws inferences about the ways that mental processes (observation, self-evaluation) determine which behaviors are learned and how they’re performed.
