PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Self-Actualization, Birth Order, Operant Conditioning
16 Dec 2016
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Chapter 12: personality general overview of personality. Personality: refers to an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, acting, feeling, and behaving. Understanding personality allows for: description of individual characteristics prediction of how people will act under varying circumstanced explanation of how psychological disorders evolve so that effective treatments can be developed. Persistence: how specific aspects of our personality endure over time personality trait: a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Psychodynamic theory: includes all of the diverse theories descended from the work of sigmund freud, which focus on unconscious mental forces. Sigmund freud: psychoanalysis - carljung:thecollectiveunconscious - alfred adler: Sigmund freud"s psychoanalytic theory: proposes that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality - Note: these are not physical entities but rather abstract psychological concepts id: Pleasure principle: if no constraint exists ego: contains our partly conscious perceptions, thoughts, and actions.
