PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Twin, Lisa Ling, Nomothetic
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Personality: the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviours that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Organization: (allport) indicates that personality is not just a list of traits but a coherent whole. The organized whole is dynamic in that it is goal seeking, sensitive to context, and adaptive to environment. E. g. , job interviews, funerals, hanging out with your boss. This is where your personality isns more E. g. , at home, at a bar, hanging out with friends. If you want to find out how a person really is, you want to get to know them in weak situation. Different ways of studying & understanding personality. Emphasizes the influence of unconscious forces on behaviour. Levels of consciousness conscious mind (present awareness), Preconscious mind(outside awareness but accessible) and unconscious mind (not accessible but still there) The mind is split into three different parts. Id (unconscious psychic energy) drives pleasure seeking.
