PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Psychoanalysis
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13 theories of personality: personality: the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave, character: value judgments of a person"s moral and ethical behavior, temperament: the enduring characteristics with which each person is born, temperament: the behavioral characteristics that are fairly well established at. Id: part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious: pleasure principle: the immediate satisfaction of need without regard for the consequences, ego: part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality; mostly conscious, rational, and logical, reality principle : the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result, superego: part of the personality that acts as a moral center, ego ideal: part of the superego that contains the standards for moral behavior, conscience: part of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how well behavior matches or does not match the ego ideal.
