PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Electra Complex, Penis Envy, Castration Anxiety
16 Dec 2018
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Chapter 14: personality: personality a person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories: psychodynamic theories focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experience. Importance of unconscious: presence of id, ego, and superego, shaping of personality during childhood, use of defense mechanisms to deal with anxiety, disagreement with freud: The big five factors: stability, neuroticism decreases in middle adulthood, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, and extraversion increase, heritability, about 50, predictive of other behavioral attributes, evaluating trait theories, person-situation controversy. Traits are relatively stable but specific behaviors often change. To get better sense of personality, average over many situations: behavior is interaction of inner disposition and environment, personality tests are weak predictors of behaviors. Internal vs. external locus of control: external locus of control perception that our fate is controlled by chance or outside forces that are beyond our personal control. Learned helplessness vs. personal control again before a rest period.
