PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sigmund Freud, Personal Unconscious, Phallic Stage
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The concept of personality is used to explain: the stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations (consistency, the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation (distinctiveness) Personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. A personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Factor analysis is correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables. If the measurements of a number of variables correlates high with one another, the assumption is that a single factor is influencing all of them. Psychodynamic theories include all of the diverse theories descended from the work of. Sigmund freud, which focus on unconscious mental forces. Psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain personality, motivation, and psychological disorders by focusing on the influences of early childhood experiences, on unconscious motives and conflicts, and on the methods people use to cope with their sexual and aggressive urges.
