Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations: thoughts, feelings, actions all reflect personality components of identity distinguish individuals. Behaviours areseen to have internal causes, not external. Behaviours fit together in a pattern imply personality. Psychodynamic theory looks at causes of behaviour at the unconscious level: unconscious urges, conflicts. Psychoanalysis: analysis of internal (usually unconscious) psychological force. Sigmund freud: treated patients with conversion hysteria: blindness, paralysis, etc. with no physical causes. Under hypnosis, or free association patients would begin to remember past traumatic events: after remembering, symptoms disappear! Freud: symptoms caused by unconscious mind personality is an energy. Conscious thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we are currently aware: people think this and preconscious are the most prominent mental. Mental events not currently in awareness, but can be easily recalled (or focused on: think of your 16th birthday .