PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 16Pf Questionnaire, Phallic Stage, Gordon Allport
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Personality: complex set of psychological qualiies inluencing individual characterisic paterns of behaviour across diferent situaions over ime. Theories of personality used to both understand and predict behaviour. Oldest approaches classify people according to types or traits of personality. Personality types: disinct categories or dimensions of personality. Psychodynamic: powerful inner forces shape personality and moivate behaviour: all behaviour is moivated by psychic energy, innate drives form tension systems. Eros: psychic energy in forms of libido and thanatos (death insinct) Eros operates from birth and manifests in stages. Linked to pleasure in diferent erogenous zones and some conlicts to be resolved. Too much graiicaion or too much frustraion at any stage leads to ixaion. Freud"s psychosexual stages: a series of diferent forms of sexual energy into which personality develops as the child matures, stages: Genital (puberty on: conlict and anxiety at each stage that much be resolved or will become ixated at that level.
