PSYC 102 Lecture 18: Personality
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Psychoanalytic personality: childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence, personality = interplay between unconscious and conscious, id, ego, and the superego processes. Women try to dominate men or overly submissive man= narcissist. Supress these urges: identification, superego gains strength. Freud"s followers: psychodynamic school: anna freud, alfred adler. Anxiety & defence mechanisms: karen horney, carl jung. Less emphasis on sex / aggression (not primary / only motive) Project your own unconscious ideas: thematic apperception test, think of psychological test, rorcharch inkblot test, give insight into the unconscious. Humanistic approach to personality the self: not unconscious (freud), behaviour (skinner), thinking (wundt), individual"s perspective or the human brain. Humanistic psychology: focus on achieving self actualization (be all that you can be, studied healthy individuals the self-concept. Render stimuli functionally equivalent: the three stimuli are all equally powerful, personality is a predictor of behaviour. Mentioned introvert and extrovert: 18 000 traits, how can we predict 18 000 ways someone acts.
