Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Trait Theory, Julian Rotter, Albert Bandura

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas

Document Summary

Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling &acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Personality dynamics involve modifications &exchanges of energy w/in the system. Mental events may be conscious, preconscious or unconscious. Psychic energy powers the mind &constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. The innermost core of the personality, the only structure present at birth &the source of all psychic energy. Seeks immediate instinctual gratification on the basis of the pleasure principle. Pleasure principle id seeks immediate gratification or release, regardless of rational consideration and environmental realities. Ego functions primarily at a conscious level and it operates according to the reality principle. Requires it to test reality and mediate between the demands of the id, the superego &reality. Reality principle tests reality to decide when and under what conditions the id can safely discharge its impulses and satisfy its needs. The repository for the values and ideals of society.