PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13-15: Word Salad, Head Injury, Fear Conditioning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Definition of personality -- a person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting, . the typical way we think feel and behave. Psychodynamic theories of personality view human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious. The theories of psychodynamic descend from freud"s psychoanalysis. Freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; interpret the unconscious to find out how to treat a disorder. Untapped memories that are mostly unacceptable thoughts, feelings. Information processing of which we are unaware of. In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how embarrassing. Freud"s theory is basically that the mind is mostly hidden. He believed you can glimpse the unconscious, in people free association, beliefs, habits and symptoms but also in slips of the tongue and pen, also jokes were an expression of sexual tension or aggression.