PSYC1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sexual Repression, Unconscious Mind, Frontal Lobe
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What is personality? (cid:494)no personality(cid:495) = not true: persistent pattern of behav, laymen def: Originally only diff b/t people and animals. Became associated w/ charm & charisma: scientific def, psych diff b/t people. Non related to intellectual diff: generally distinct from intellectual abilities, enduring dispositions, generalised patterns of responding. Not specific to certain situations: encompasses underlying psych mechanism. Why people are diff: funder (2010): (cid:498)an indiv. characteristic pattern of thought, emotion and behav. Together w/ psych mechanisms hidden or not behind these patterns. (cid:499) Trait approaches: trait = characteristics, describing how people diff psych, determining which features are important, how should we conceptualize + measure these features e. g. 5 factor model. Psychodynamic approaches: unconscious mind intrapsychic conflict illicit impulses to perform behav. Pre frontal cortex regulates behav: freud. Phenomenological approach: focus on experience, becoming the best person you can be. Self actualisation: each person has a diff experience, existential anxiety, creativity, free will, cross cultural.
