PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 13
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13 outline: theories of personality: what are the definitions for personality, character, and temperament, personality. The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel and behave: character. Value judgments of a person"s moral and ethical behavior: temperament. Freud was the founder of the psychoanalytic movement in psychology. Information is available but not currently conscious: conscious mind. Aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions: unconscious mind. Thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness. Can be revealed in dreams and freudian slips of the tongue. Part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious. Pleasure principle: the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences: ego. Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality; mostly conscious, rational and logical. Reality principle: the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result: superego.
