COLLECTION NAME:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Title:
Personality and Personality Theories, lecture 7
Title Type:
Devised
Alternative Title:
The Person Concept - Maxims; Developmental Schema
Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Resource Type:
Audio
Genre:
sound recordings
Genre:
lectures
Place Created:
Boulder (Colo.)
Date Created:
1974-10-01
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 audiocassette (1 hour, 44 min., 43 sec.)
Form:
open reel audiotapes
Abstract:
Recorded lecture #7 provided by Dr. Peter Ossorio from his advanced personality course titled Personality and Personality Theories. Ossorio discusses topics including descriptive psychology, critics, taxonomy, critic/observer, behavioral maxims, and relationship notions.
Note:
00:00:00 Recording begins in the middle of an audience member asking Peter Ossorio a question regarding maxims in practice. Ossorio discusses the topic 00:03:16 Ossorio brings up a topic from the last lecture that he intends to answer on the topic of ex-post-facto and maxim seven. Ossorio and the audience discuss deletion, concept, distinction, and acquiring. 00:16:42 Ossorio discusses maxim eight: if a person has a given person characteristic, they got it in one of the ways it could be got. 00:19:06 Ossorio expands on maxim eight elaborating on the developmental schema which includes history and notions of behavior. 00:24:57 Ossorio connects the topic of capacity to the developmental schema, maxim eight, and ID characteristic. Ossorio and the audience discuss the topic. 00:31:20 Ossorio discusses maturation within the developmental schema. 00:35:10 Ossorio discusses taxonomy and metrics associated with maxim eight and the developmental schema. 00:36:55 Ossorio discusses the formula for expressing maxim eight behaviorally versus theoretically. Ossorio and the audience discuss. 00:42:25 Ossorio discusses the minimum to required for a person to act behaviorally to acquire person characteristics. Ossorio expands on capability versus incapable and capacity as it relates to the topic. Ossorio and the audience discuss. 00:55:11 Ossorio discusses the social practices in child raising as an example of a social evolution. Ossorio and the audience discuss the topic as it relates to capacity and capability for change. 00:57:31 Ossorio discusses the logical connections lacking flexibility. Ossorio and the audience discuss. 01:00:59 Ossorio discusses why the inflexibility of logical connections are significant. Ossorio discusses a useful exercise to resist that logic. Ossorio and the audience discuss. 01:20:36 Ossorio discusses maxim nine: Behavior goes right unless it goes wrong unless it goes wrong in one of the ways in can go wrong. 01:24:54 Ossorio concludes the maxims lecture. 01:26:24 Ossorio brings the discussion back to the critic and how the maxims are designed to be used by the critic and not observers. Ossorio discusses the purpose of the observer. 01:31:10 Ossorio discusses how through the notion of relationships can work for an observer. Ossorio discusses the relationship formula approach. Ossorio and the audience discuss. 01:44:43 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Note:
[cataloger's note: alternative titles are copied from Ossorio's course outline. To view the outline and additional background information about the recordings, please visit Peter G. Ossorio's webpage titled, "Personality and Personality Theories - Lectures by Peter G. Ossorio, Ph.D. / Presentation : 1974" on the Society for Descriptive Psychology website.]
Subject Topic:
Descriptive psychology
Subject Topic:
Human behavior
Subject Topic:
Psychology--Study and teaching
Subject Topic:
Notions (Psychology)
Subject Topic:
Maxims
Subject Topic:
Taxonomies (Controlled vocabularies)
Identifier:
U183071307043_narv_ossorioPeter_37-10_advancedPersonalityLectures7_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU:3855 | Box: 37 | Tape: 10
Related Item:
Personality and Personality Theories
Date Captured:
Spring, 2024
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
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