Summary Psychology 213 Notes

What are the four sources of information for Personology?

Réponse: 1.Cultural Tradition 2. Observation of others 3. Direct communication 3.Self-observation

What are the three opinions about personality?

Réponse: 1. Personism 2. Situationalism 3. Interactionalism

What are the three approaches to personality theories?

Réponse: 1. Depth approach 2. Behavioral and learning approach 3. Person- orientated approach

What is empiricism?

Réponse: An approach to philosophy of science that starts with the assumption that the only source of true knowledge is observed through sensory perception

What is rationalism?

Réponse: Human reason is the only source of true knowledge

What were psychology\'s two beginnings?

Réponse: 1. Wundt and the foundation within the academic context 2. Freud and the foundation within a practical medical context

What was Wundt\'s experimental method of investigation specific to psychology?

Réponse: Introspection  a method of self-observation under controlled conditions

What are the basic assumptions of Freud’s personality theory?

Réponse: The assumption of psychosocial conflict The assumption of biological and psychic determinism The mechanistic assumption

What is psychosocial conflict?

Réponse: The person is caught up in a constant conflict between drives within the psyche and the demands and norms of society  The result of this conflict is that the individual constantly tries to experience as much drive satisfaction and as few guilt feelings as possible

What is biological and psychic determinism?

Réponse: Freud describes human drives as physiologically based and rooted within the body  Drives are located in the part of the psyche called the id while societal rules are gradually absorbed into the superego  All behaviour is determined by forces within the psyche