Psych1030 Flashcards
nomothetic approach
Searching for general laws that govern all human behaviour
ideographic approach
Focusing on unique aspects of individuals.
what causes personality
genetics, shared-environments and non-shared environments
our egos
our superego shows at all levels, Id is in the unconscious level and our ego is at the conscious level
oral (0-1)
pleasure from biting, sucking
anal (2-3)
pleasure from bowel movement
phallic (4-5)
pleasure from genetals
latency (6-12)
suppressed or laten sexuality
genital
sexual drive manifested in heterosexual genital contact
malow
self-actualisation (people want to fulfil their potential)
sigmund
unconscious processes are things that happen deep inside our psych, outside of our level or awareness
rogers
personality is a function of the organism, so the person, the self which is the self-concept, and what is referred to as conditions of worth.
skinner
ersonality is under the control of genetic factors as well as under the control of environmental reinforcers and punishers.
bandora
personality is the interaction between both a person’s traits and the environment that their behaviour is expressed in
the big five
neuroticism, openness, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientious
objective tests
NEO-PI and MMPI
projective tests
Rorschach Inkblot test and thematic apperception test
the two models of social cognition
algebraic and configurational
Asch states there are two main types of traits
central and peripheral
consensus information
whether other people perform the same behaviour or not
distinctiveness information
whether the behaviour is only preformed towards this particular target or person, or whether it’s performed towards other targets as well
consistency information
whether the behaviour is preformed all the time or not
Fundamental attribution error
the tendency to attribute another person’s behaviour to his or her own dispositional qualities, rather than to the situation that the behaviour is performed in.
disequilibrium
occurs when our basic knowledge or schema differs from the new experience
assimilate and accomodate
assimilate: fit the new experience into our knowledge
accomodate: we can create a new concept to accommodate that new experience
sensorimotor
- struggle with object permanence
- at the end can develop mental representation
pre-operational (2-7)
- language
- struggle coordinating multiple conflicting representations
- egocentric
concrete (7-12)
- struggle with two mental representations that conflict each other
- can’t understand what they can’t see the objects
operational stage
