ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Latency Stage, Preconscious, Psychodynamics
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Personality: the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Personality trait: a characteristic, a dispositional tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances. Personality is not just a list of traits, but the dynamic organization within the individual of the psychological and biological factors (psychophysical system) that determine characteristic behavior & thought. Psychodynamic theory: freudian theory that unconscious forces determine behavior. > unconscious things often in conflict (due to freud) Conflicts between id and superego lead to anxiety. Ego copes with anxiety through various defense mechanisms, unconscious mental strategies that the mind uses to protect itself from distress. Psychosexual stages: according to freud developmental stages that correspond to distinct libidinal urges; progression through these stages profoundly affects personality. Latency stage -> children suppress libidinal urges. Genital stage -> adolescents & adults, mature attitudes about sexuality.
