PSYC 2000 Chapter : Modules 45 47 Personality Outline
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Personality is an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. The unique way ach individual thinks, acts, and feels throughout life. Character is the value judgments made about a person"s morals or ethical behavior. Temperament is the enduring characteristics with which each person is born, such as irritability or adaptability. It is based in one"s biology, either through genetic influences, prenatal influences, or a combination and forms the basis upon which one"s larger personality is built. The psychoanalytic perspective comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Free association: a method of exploring the unconscious in when the person relaxes and says whatever. Psychoanalysis: attributes thoughts and actions to the unconscious, treatment of psychological disorders by exposing and interpreting unconscious tensions. It is freud"s term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it. Freud said: it is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.
