Quiz 1 Flashcards
What does the psychological triad consist of?
Emotions, behavior, and thoughts
Psychodynamic approach
Primary concern is with the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict
Behavioral approach
How behavior changes as results of rewards punishments or life experiences.
Trait approach
How people differ psychologically and how those differences are measured
Phenomenological approach
Focus on conscious subjective experience. Free will, optimism
Cognitive approach
Perception, memory, and thought influence personality
Biological approach
Understand the mind in terms of the body. Genetics, neuroanatomy,neurophysiology
Technical training
Conveying what is already known about a subject so that the knowledge can be applied
Scientific education
Teaching what is known and how to find out what is not yet known
Personality
An individual’s characteristic patterns of thought emotion and behavior together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns
Why do we care about personality?
To understand behavior and to predict it
Other names for approaches
Paradigms or theories
