PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism
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Emphasis on sex and unconscious conflicts as motivation for behavior and influencing personality. No physical evidence - so no evidence. Mostly derives into self drives, shaping children personality, unconscious thoughts desire. Building on freud but going in some new directions. Can find supported evidence for the theory - built upon, rejection of freud ideas. Early childhood important, but no evidence for psychosexual stages. No evidence for any aspect of freud"s theory or for most neo-freudian theories either. Shaped a widely used personality test, myers-briggs. Where we derive our energy from (outer world of people and activities; or inner world of ideas and emotions) What we pay attention to: sensory information vs intuition. How we make decisions: logic and objective factors vs values and emotions. Approach to life: planned and organized vs spontaneous and flexible. Mbti useful for organizations and for couples therapy. Organizational psychologist - often uses mbti to clients.
