Personality Flashcards
What is Psychic Determinism?
Mental & behavioural reactions determined by previous experiences
What is Libido?
The psychic energy that drives us to sensual pleasures of all types, especially sexual ones
What is the Humanistic thoeries?
Everyone has a self model that under favorable nurtureing environment constantly strives towards creativity and gowth through self-actualisation
How is disposition perspective in humanistic theories different from trait and psychodynamic theories?
Trait and Psychodynamic theories believe that disposition is a set of patterns that recurring over the time, while humanistic theories believe that human is inherently striving towards creativity and growth
what is one of humanistic theories flaws?
- fuzzy, hard to perceive self-actualisation and etc
2. ignoring environmental variables
what is psychobiography?
systematic use of psychological theories -> transform life -> a coherent story
Social-learning theories?
Behavior = explicit & implicit responses due to reinforcement history
What is expectancy? What led to it?
The expectation of rewards that may come with a behiour. the history of reinforcement
what is Mischel’s Cognitive–affective Personality Theory?
People differ in their choice of life goals and how to implement them => this alters their behaviours
What is locus of control?
Perception of where controlling factor lies
INTERNALs: In one self
EXTERNALs: Environment
What is
Bandura’s Cognitive Social-learning Theory?
Individual factors
behavior
environmental stimuli
2-way interactions among these 3
what is reciprocal determinism?
concept implying that you must ex- amine all components if you want to completely understand human behavior, personality, and social ecology
