PSY 1102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fluoxetine, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Psychosis
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An individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting: trait theories. Multiple factors (personal factors, environment, and behavior) Freud & psychoanalysis: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=fqzl0byv_de, psychoanalysis: proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality. Levels of consciousness: 3 levels of awareness: Current awareness: thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories. 1) the life instinct: basic biological urges. Pleasure principle: the drive to seek pleasure, avoid pain, gain immediate gratification of wishes. Source of the libido: the life energy, mostly sexual, that drives personality. The ego (develops after birth: conscious actor. But has an unconscious component (defense mechanisms: emerges from the id. Reality principle: considers constraints of the real world, right time, and place. The superego: the moral component of personality, partially conscious & unconscious. 1) conscience: the behaviours that make you feel guilty. 2) ego ideal: the behaviours that make us feel proud rewarded behaviours. Represents the expectations of parents and society: guidelines for moral perfection. Ego = mediator between id and superego.
