Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Big Five Personality Traits, Unconditional Positive Regard, Julian Rotter
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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. Seen as components of identity that distinguish that person from other people. Behaviours viewed as being caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors. Behaviours seem to fit together in a meaningful fashion, suggesting an inner personality that guides and directs behaviour. Psychic energy generated by instinctual drives, this energy powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. Buildup of sexual energy can be discharged directly through sexual activity, or indirectly through fantasies or artistic depictions. 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.