CRJ 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psy
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No one is born with a predetermined personality. We are blank, and then we respond differently to our environments. That"s what builds our personalities: born with one basic preconception: survival of the organism. You modify yourself to fit the environment you want to be in. so if you want to be a lawyer, you focus and study aspects focusing on law. Professor believes: theory of personality, what type of guy would commit such a crime, expert needs to justify why a person committed the crime, documentation on personality. Id: meaning it": the human organism and what it wants, very demanding. Superego: the conscious: to satisfy the ego. Ego: the mediator: the mediator of the battle between the what you want" and the. Resource you have": draws it energy from the id, easily troubled when you do the wrong thing. The id is the bigger one, with the superego as part of it, and the ego as part of the superego.