Intro Flashcards
-Refers to the action of an organisms or system, usually in relation to its environment
-Can also be defined as anything that you do that can be directly observed, measured, and repeated.
Behavior
The range of action and mannerism exhibited by human in conjunction with their environment, responding to various stimuli.
Human behavior
Influential factors includes:
Attitudes
Emotions
Cultures
Ethics
Authority
Motivations
Coercion
Beliefs
Reasoning
Values
Religion
Rapport
Persuasion
The process of a person’s growth and maturation throughout their lifespan, concerned with the creation of an environment where people are able to develop their full potential.
Human development
Four pillars of human development
Equity
sustainability
Production
Empowerment
Psychoanalytic Theory (Sigmund Frued)/the Structure of Personality
Id
Ego
Superego
it allows us to get our basic needs met and based on the pleasure principle. Called as “the true psychic of personality”.
Id
is to meet the needs of the id, while taking into account the constraints of reality. Serves as the mediator of id and superego. Can be viewed as “sense of time and place”.
Ego
internalizes society and parental standards of “good” and “bad”, “right” and “wrong” behaviour. Known as the “conscience of man”.
Superego
Level of awareness (typological model by Sigmund Freud
The Conscious Level
The Preconscious Level
Unconscious Level
Freud’s model of personality development (psychosexual stages)
Oral stage – 0 to 18 months
Anal stage - 18 months to 3 years
Phallic stage – 3 to 6 years
Latency stage -6 to 11 years
Genital stage – 11 years on
Freud’s psychosexual theory believes that we are born with two basis instincts
Eros
Thanatos
includes sexual drives and drives such as hunger and thirst
Eros
includes not only striving for death but also destructive motives such as hostility and aggression
Thanatos
attempts to learn and explain traits that make personality characteristics, and how they are related to actual behaviour.
Trait theory