Ch.15, Integration Flashcards
Strageties for understanding behavior
search for meaning in the actions or classify the behavior into preexisting taxonomies/frameworks
What theories search for meaning in actions?
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
What theories classify behavior?
Trait theories, behavior classified as a manifestation of a domain-general trait
Evolutionary psychology: behavior linked to domainn-specific psychological mechanisms
How is asking what situations mean to people, semiotic?
Semiotic subject is a person for whom the meaning of a situation is the major determinant of his or her response to it
Quotidian psychology
psychology of everyday acts and experiences