PSYC 2000 Lecture : Modules 45 47 Notes Outline
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Personality: personality: an individual/s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Exploring the unconscious froyd: free association: method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Exploring the unconscious: psychoanalysis: attributes thoughts and actions to the unconscious; treatment of psychological disorders by exposing and interpreting unconscious tensions. Exploring the unconscious: unconscious, freud said: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, modern psychologists say: information processing of which we are unaware. Personality development: psychosexual stages: childhood development focusing on the pleasure oriented discovery of the body. Personality development: oedipus complex: a boy"s sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealously and hatred for the rival father, electra complex: girls" parallel of the oedipus complex. Identification: process by which children incorporate their parents" values into their developing superegos.
