Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Erik Erikson, Intentionality, Hans Eysenck

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Aspects of personality have three characteristics: 1) components of identity, 2) perceived internal cause, 3) perceived organization and structure. Study of personality has been guided by the psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, behavioral, cognitive, and sociocultural perspectives. Psychodynamic theorist look for the causes of behavior in a dynamic interplay of inner forces that often conflict with one another. Buildup of sexual energy can be discharged directly through sexual activity, or indirectly through fantasies or artistic depictions: mental events are divided: Conscious events that we are presently aware of. Preconscious memories, thoughts, feelings, images that we are unaware of at the moment, but can be recalled. Unconscious dynamic realm of wishes, feelings, and impulses that lie beyond our awareness: personality divided into three separate but interacting structures: Id primitive and unconscious part of the personality that contains the instincts.