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Psych 100 Personality Notes
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- PSYCH 100
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- Pennsylvania State University - All Campuses
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PSYCH 100: CrosbyPersonality (Modules 38-39)
PERSONALITY: the unique and relatively stable ways people think, feel, and behave.
HOW DOES PERSONALITY DIFFER FROM CHARACTER AND TEMPERAMENT?
CHARACTER: VALUE JUDGEMENTS OF MORALITY AND ETHICS
TEMPERAMENT: ENDURING CHARACTERISTICS EACH PERSON IS BORN WITH
MAJOR PERSPECTIVES IN PERSONALITY THEORY:
1. PSYCHODYNAMIC
2. HUMANISTIC
3. TRAIT
FREUD AND PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
HOW DID FREUD’S UPBRINGING INFLUENCE HIS THEORY?
VICTORIAN AGE
SEXUAL REPRESSION
SEX FOR PROCREATION
MISTRESSES SATISFIED MEN’S “UNCONTROLLABLE” SEXUAL DESIRES
WOMEN WERE NOT TO HAVE SEXUAL URGES
THREE PARTS OF THE MIND:
1. CONSCIOUS: CONTACT WITH OUTSIDE WORLD; CURRENT AWARENESS
2. PRECONSCIOUS: MATERIAL JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE OF AWARENESS
3. UNCONSCIOUS: level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other
information is kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.
DIVISIONS OF PERSONALITY:
ID: COMPLETELY UNCONSCIOUS, AMORAL, PRESENT AT BIRTH, CONTAINS BASIC BIOLOGICAL DRIVES
OPERATES ACCORDING TO THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.
EGO: RATIONAL AND LOGICAL, CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT
OPERATES ACCORDING TO THE REALITY PRINCIPLE.
, PSYCH 100: Crosby
SUPEREGO: MORAL ASPECT OF PERSONALITY, DEVELOPS AS CHILDREN BEGIN TO LEARN RULES AND
EXPECTATIONS
CONSCIENCE: part of personality that makes people feel guilty when they do the wrong
thing.
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS: unconscious distortions of a person’s
perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety.
DENIAL: REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE/ACKNOWLEDGE A THREATENING SITUATION
REACTION FORMATION: SWITCHING UNACCEPTABLE IMPULSES TO THEIR OPPOSITES
RATIONALIZATION: MAKING ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR
PROJECTION: PLACING ONE’S OWN UNACCEPTABLE THOUGHTS ONTO OTHERS
DISPLACEMENT: EXPRESSING FEELINGS THAT WOULD BE THREATENING IF DIRECTED AT THE
REAL TARGET ONTO A LESS THREATENING TARGET
REGRESSION: FALLING BACK ON CHILDLIKE PATTERNS TO COPE STRESS
STAGES OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
ORAL:
AGE: FIRST YEAR
EROGENOUS ZONE: MOUTH
CONFLICT: WEANING
CHARACTERISTICS: FIXATION, OVEREATING, DRINKING TOO MUCH, NAIL BITING, SMOKING
ANAL:
AGE: 1 TO 3 YEARS
EROGENOUS ZONE: ANUS
CONFLICT: TOILET TRAINING
CHARACTERISTICS: EXPULSIVE VS RETENTIVE PERSONALITIES, ORGANIZED, STINGY AND
STUBBORN
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