PSY2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nomothetic, Personality Psychology, Determinism
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Note: our coverage of this chapter will be limited to: Define personality and distinguish between the nomothetic and ideographic approach to researching personality. Personality: characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and having. Nomothetic: identifies general laws that govern behavior of all individuals: good generalizability. Idiographic: identifies the unique characteristics and life history of one individual: case studies. Describe the three major assumptions of freud"s psychoanalytic theory. Unconscious motivations were unware of our behaviors; sexual motivations. Psychic determinism all of psychological events are caused by unconscious motivations. Symbolic meaning things have symbolic, sexual meaning in nature. Describe freud"s view of personality structure in terms of the id, ego, and superego. Id: the most primitive part of personality; unconscious: driven by the pleasure principle , makes you do bad* Superego: represents internalized rules and ideals pressed upon us; unconscious: the conscience guilt/should nots, makes you do good*
