Psychology 2020A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Factor Analysis, Bilateral Cingulotomy, Intellectual Disability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2020A/B
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

This guide contains notes on psychology: frontiers and applications fourth. Canadian ed. by passer, smith, atkinson, mitchell and muir. This guide is intended for supplementary purposes only. Reading this is no substitute for going to class and reading the book. We hope we can help you as much as possible, but your grades are your responsibility. Personality chapter 14: lets us distinguish people from each other, behavior that is caused by internal factors, not environmental, behaviors that fits together in a meaningful fashion. Psychodynamic perspective: personality is an energy system, psychic energy - generated by instinctual drives pressing for release. In charge of morals: ideals internalized from parents and society, decides whether ego has been good or bad, controls ego with pride and guilt. Three sources of anxiety in psychodynamic perspective: reality anxiety - fear of real world threats, neurotic anxiety - fear of id"s desires, moral anxiety - fear of superego"s guilt.