Chapter 13
Culture specific approach that focuses on one culture
What is the emic approach
Freud’s term for the aggression drive/ death instinct
Thanatos
the “perfect” community that eliminates coercive societal restrictions by replacing them with a reward system that shapes the community’s needs through reinforcemen
What is Skinner's view of Utopia
Culturally universal approach that is looking for similarities across cultures
What is the etic approach
failure to resolve any of the first three ego crises might result in hostility or aggression
Erikson/Neo-Analytic Approach to Hate
Can the perspectives be merged
Not technically, but you should view personality from multiple perspectives. You just can't merge them
each individual’s own unique version of his or her native language
What is an idiolect
person who has a cruel penchant for exerting power of others, abusing them, and taking their possessions
Authoritarian Personality Type
Are there exactly 8 perspectives
No
regional variations in phonology, vocabulary, and syntactic form
What is a dialect
tendency for some people to fail to make distinctions among other people and perceive other people as similar to one another
What is cognitive simplicity
Is one perspectives better than the others
No
the paradoxical idea that slavery was allowed and endorsed despite the claim the U.S. was founded on the principle all men were created equal
What is the American Dilemma
Our thoughts and feelings are both central to the experience of love and we can classify different types of love
What is the Cognitive Approach to Love
drugs being designed in light of newly understood brain processes
New era for psychoactive substances