PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Rorschach Test, Phallic Stage, Psychosexual Development
8 Apr 2015
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Influences: people"s typical ways of thinking, feelings, and behaving, genetic factors, shared environmental factors, nonshared environmental factors. Trait situations: relatively enduring predisposition that influences our behaviour across many. Idiographic approach: approach to personality that focuses on identifying the unique configuration of characteristics and life history experiences within a person. Investigation that allows researchers to pinpoint genes associated with specific personality traits. Structured personality tests few fixed ways: paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that respondents answer in one of a. Psychoanalytic theory: unconscious motives: the id, ego, and superego . Psychic determinism: the assumption that all psychological events have a cause. Pleasure principle: tendency of the id to strive for immediate gratification. Reality principle outlet: tendency of the ego to postpone gratification until it can find an appropriate. Id: reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and aggression, primitive impulses (i. e. sex, aggression); pleasure principle (i. e. , immediate gratification). Ego: psyche"s executive and principal decision maker.
