PSYO 1012 Study Guide - Preconscious, Karen Horney, Likert Scale

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1012
• Professor: Stamp

Document Summary

Personality: the unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts and motives that characterize the individual. Trait: a disposition to behave consistently in a particular way. Behavioral thresholds: the point at which a person moves from not having a particular response to having one. Quantitative trait loci (qtl) approach: a technique in behavioral genetics that looks for the location on genes that might be associated with particular behavior. Unconscious: the levels of consciousness containing all drives, urges, and instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheless motivate most behavior. Id: freud"s term for the seat of impulse and desire; the pleasure-seeking part of our personality. Superego: freud"s term for the part of the mind that monitors behavior and evaluates it in terms of right and wrong; the conscience. Ego: freud"s term for the sense of self; the part of the mind that operates on the reality principle. Repression: defense mechanism for keeping unpleasant thoughts, feelings or impulse out of consciousness.