PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Preconscious, Personal Unconscious, Sexual Repression

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Study of personality mainly focuses on describing and understanding our individual differences. Personality been linked to things like happiness, physical and psychological health, marital/ peer/ family relationships, personality identity, criminal behaviour. Includes theories of freud, skinner, rogers, and few others. Is complex hypothetical construct that can be defined in various ways: defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness. No o(cid:374)e is e(cid:374)ti(cid:396)el(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t (cid:449)ith (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) (cid:894)so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e is(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)hee(cid:396)ful all the ti(cid:373)e(cid:895), (cid:271)ut this quality of consistency across situations lies at core of concept of personality. Personality is used to explain why not everyone acts in same way in certain situations. Overall, personality used to explain: 1) the stability in a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s behaviour over time and across situations (consistency) and 2) the behavioural differences among people reacting to same situation (distinctiveness) Personality- (cid:396)efe(cid:396)s to a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue (cid:272)o(cid:374)stellatio(cid:374) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)al t(cid:396)aits: personality traits: disposition and dimensions.