Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Iceberg, Unconscious Mind, Personal Unconscious

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Personality is the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Psychodynamic theorists look for the causes of behaviour in one"s internal conflicts and they also focus on unconscious determinants of behaviour. Not scientific or testabletheory is mostly based on therapy patients that talked to him. Probably why he focused on repression and anxiety. Psychoanalytic therapy tries to get around defences of the unconscious mind. "ice berg" --> the part of our personality that is directly observable to us is probably only. 10% of our personality (this is called the conscious mind) Conscious mind - all mental events that you are currently aware ofa very small. Unconscious mind - the vast majority of what goes on in your mind and the majority of who you are is in the unconscious where it cannot be accessed directlythe unconscious lies beyond our awareness.