U09 Psych 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.2: Raymond Cattell, Conscientiousness, Trait Theory

• School: WUSTL
• Department: Psychology
• Course: U09 Psych 100
• Professor: Rice Heather, Duchek, Carpenter

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Freud believed patient"s psychological disturbances were psychogenic caused by psychological rather than physical factors. Psychodynamic theory of personality unconscious forces such as wishes, desires, and hidden memories determine behavior. He believed that conscious awareness was only a small fraction of mental activity. Conscious level thoughts that people are aware of. Preconscious level content that is not currently in awareness but that could be brought to awareness; long-term memory. Unconscious level material that the mind cannot easily retrieve, including hidden memories, wishes, desires and motives: unconscious forces that drive behavior could produce conflict, which then produces anxiety or other psychological discomfort. Freudian slip - glimpse into unconscious forces that indicate hidden, unconscious desires: excuse me, i don"t think we"ve been properly seduced instead of properly introduced . Model of how personality is organized: id completely submerged in the unconscious. Largely unconscious; develops in childhood and is the internalization of parental and societal standards of conduct.