Study Guide Test 3

Professor Stern-Theories of Personality

 

Note: This is a topical guide.  It is a list of topics covered.  It is not simply a list of terms to memorize.  It does not necessarily include all of the topics in the text and lecture.

 

Modern social/personality theories

Mischel

The consistency paradox

Bandura

Reciprocal determinism

Self-efficacy and outcome expectations

Explanations of Imitation

Kelly’s personal construct theory

Kelly’s fundamental postulate

Personal and core constructs

Construct alternativism

Kelly’s corrollaries

How our constructs change

Humanistic psychology

Person Centered theory and Client centered therapy

Actualization

Incongruence

Actualizing tendency

Organismic valuing process

Unconditional positive self regard

The fully functioning person

Rogerian therapy and other applications

Maslow’s self-actualization theory

Maslow’s views on Freud

Hierarchy of needs

Different types of motivation

Higher versus lower needs

Self actualization

Peak experiences

Existentialism

Ontological (distinctly human) characteristics

Dasein

Daimonic

Modes of Dasein

The Four types of love

Overview of Theories

Tying up loose ends