PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reaction Formation, Electra Complex, Predictive Power

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Personality: characteristic pattern of behavior, thought and emotion that determine a person"s adjustment to the environment. Psychology: describe and explain individual differences, synthesize the influences on a person into an integrated account of the person. Four basic approaches to personality theory: psychoanalytic (freud, trait, humanistic, social cognitive. Is often hidden being primarily determined by unconscious mental forces: development occurs in conjunction with frustration and conflict basic needs. Freud"s two major areas of contribution to psychology: clinical psychology. Interest in neurology and in treatment of nervous disorders. Influences by jean charcot who could produce symptoms of hysteria by hypnosis: freud used hypnosis. Influences by josef bruer who used the talking cure . Ask a patient to say what comes to mind. The motivational forces that direct and initiate behavior. Psychosexual stages linking sexual energy with specific bodily organs. Parts if the mind have spatial relationships to each other. Not discovered by freud: preconscious: can become conscious.