PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: 16Pf Questionnaire, Electra Complex, Chartered Management Institute

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

Humanistic models of personality: biological approach to personality. The measurement of personality: trait/state distinction, define personality: Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Body types (test question: palm reading, palm reading doesn"t correlate to anything, writing. Psychoanalytical approach: freud (brief history, dies in 1939 in london, unconscious mind, early childhood debates that personality is based on early childhood experiences, we have some psychical or mental issues that can be fixed through talking. Freud was the first one who thought that talking might fix an issue. He was a medically trained doctor: the structure of personality a. ) It"s as if our personality could be said to be containing an id, ego, superego. Is the first part a child is born with. It is guided by the pleasure principle. All it is guided by is seeking pleasure, and avoided pain. Seed of our sexual and aggressive impulses. b. ) You begin to teach right or wrong".