PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle, Freudian Slip

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

A characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Personality trait: a person"s habitual pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving. State: a temporary physical or psychological engagement that influences behaviour. Many of them exists and they all measure personality in different ways. Allport: 1930"s attempted to identify all possible traits. Used to group items that people respond to similarly. Has narrowed the many potential personality traits into a small number of factors. Based on the finding that personality can be described using five major dimensions. The big 5 might be missing cultural specific qualities. Tendency to use people, be deceitful, be manipulative. Use other as a means to an end. Personality and behaviour are shaped by powerful forces in consciousness, most of which is hidden from our awareness in our consciousness. Unconscious mind cast powerful, inaccessible, operates without your permission.