PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Hermann Rorschach, Karen Horney, Humanistic Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Personality: a person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Some thoughts stores were in a preconscious area. Unacceptable passions and thoughts that we repress. Without our awareness, these troublesome feelings and ideas would affect the work we choose, the beliefs we hold, our daily habits and our troubling symptoms the content of a dream( manifest content) = unconscious wishes( latent content)