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Personality Psychology: Differences between People Summary Notes Exam Prep

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Theme 1:
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality

Psychoanalytic Theory and Key Concepts

● Past Experiences and Behavior:
○ Past experiences shape behavior and feelings.
○ Making unconscious memories conscious is seen as the path to recovery.
○ Repression of childhood memories and unconscious motivation influences
adult personality.
● Freud’s View on Personality:
○ Adult Personality: Shaped by how a child copes with sexual and aggressive
urges.
○ Known as the "original archaeologist of the human mind."
● Fundamental Assumptions:
○ Psychic Energy: Constant throughout life; personality changes involve
redirecting this energy.
○ Basic Instincts: Include self-preservation and sexual instincts as primary
sources of psychic energy.
○ Life and Death Instincts:
■ Libido (Life Instinct): Represents need-satisfying, life-sustaining,
and pleasure-oriented energy.
■ Thanatos (Death Instinct): Urge to destroy, harm, or aggress.

Structure of the Mind

● Three Parts of the Mind:
○ Conscious Mind: Contains current thoughts and perceptions.
○ Preconscious Mind: Stores easily retrievable information (e.g., early
memories).
○ Unconscious Mind: The largest part of the mind, containing repressed
memories and urges.
● Psychic Determinism:
○ Every thought and behavior has a cause rooted in the conscious,
preconscious, or unconscious mind.
○ Freudian Slip: Example of unconscious motivations surfacing in speech.
● Unconscious Motivation:
○ Unconscious desires and memories can cause psychological problems
(e.g., Anna O case).
○ Blindsight and Deliberation-Without-Attention: Parts of the mind can
process information without conscious awareness.
○ Complex decisions may benefit from unconscious deliberation ("let me
sleep on it").

,Structure of Personality: Id, Ego, and Superego

1. Id:
○ The primitive, instinctual part of the mind, governed by the Pleasure
Principle (immediate gratification).
○ Primary Process Thinking: Uses fantasy or imagination to satisfy urges
temporarily.
○ Dominates during infancy, focused on satisfying needs without regard for
reality or morals.
2. Ego:
○ Executive Manager: Balances id’s urges with reality, operates on the
Reality Principle.
○ Secondary Process Thinking: Develops strategies to solve problems
realistically (e.g., redirecting aggressive urges).
○ Manages self-control and copes with threats to reduce anxiety.
3. Superego:
○ Source of guilt and moral judgment, shaped by societal and parental
expectations.
○ Develops around age five and internalizes social values, often leading to
feelings of shame if ideals aren’t met.
● Interactions and Conflicts:
○ Each component (id, ego, superego) has distinct goals, creating internal
conflict and anxiety.
○ Balanced Personality: Achieved when the ego successfully mediates
between the id and superego.

Anxiety and Defense Mechanisms

● Types of Anxiety:
○ Objective Anxiety: Real, external threats.
○ Neurotic Anxiety: Conflict between ego and id.
○ Moral Anxiety: Conflict between ego and superego, leading to feelings like
guilt or low self-esteem.
● Defense Mechanisms:
○ Protect the ego from anxiety, enabling temporary coping.
○ Examples:
■ Repression: Pushing traumatic memories out of consciousness.
■ Denial: Insisting things are not as they seem.
■ Displacement: Redirecting feelings onto a safer target.
■ Rationalization: Justifying unacceptable behavior.
■ Reaction Formation: Acting in the opposite way of true feelings.
■ Projection: Attributing one’s own flaws to others.

, ■ Sublimation: Channeling unacceptable impulses into acceptable
outlets.

Psychosexual Stages of Development

● Oral Stage (0-18 months): Focus on weaning; fixation can lead to dependence or
overeating.
● Anal Stage (18 months-3 years): Focus on toilet training; fixation can lead to
orderliness or messiness.
● Phallic Stage (3-5 years): Oedipal/Electra complexes; boys fear castration, girls
experience penis envy.
● Latency Stage (6-puberty): Psychological rest; focus on socialization.
● Genital Stage (puberty-adulthood): Libido focused on mature sexuality and
relationships.
● Fixation: Failure to resolve conflicts at any stage results in a fixation, affecting
adult personality.

Psychoanalysis and Therapy

● Goal of Psychoanalysis: Make the unconscious conscious to achieve
psychological healing.
● Techniques:
○ Free Association: Encourages free flow of thoughts to uncover hidden
memories.
○ Dream Analysis: Interpreting manifest (obvious) and latent (hidden) content
of dreams.
○ Projective Techniques: Uses ambiguous stimuli (e.g., inkblots) to reveal
unconscious thoughts.
● Therapeutic Process:
○ Psychoanalyst offers interpretations, helping the patient gain insight into
repressed material.
○ Insight: Emotional realization of repressed memories, often met with
resistance as the mind defends itself.
○ Transference: Patients project feelings for significant figures onto the
therapist, reenacting past conflicts.

Importance and Evaluation of Psychoanalysis

● Legacy of Freud:
○ Although controversial and criticized for lack of empirical evidence, Freud
laid the foundation for modern psychology.

, ○ Developed key ideas about developmental stages, defense mechanisms,
and the role of unconscious processes.
● Critiques:
○ Non-empirical, hard to replicate, and often based on case studies.
○ Criticized for being sexist and limited by Victorian-era cultural values.

Summary and Key Takeaways

● Psyche Composition: Consists of conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
mind components.
● Id, Ego, Superego: Balance sexual and aggressive instincts with societal norms.
● Anxiety and Defense: Defense mechanisms protect the ego and manage conflicts.
● Developmental Stages: Personality forms through resolving conflicts tied to
expressions of sexuality.
● Psychotherapy: Aims to uncover and work through repressed conflicts for mental
health.

Theme 2:
Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches to Personality

Behaviorism: Key Concepts and Theories

● Behaviorism Overview:
○ Focuses on observable behaviors, with behavior seen as predetermined by
environmental influences.
○ Environment’s Role: Determines life trajectory, thoughts, and feelings
through adaptive pressures.
○ Psychopathology: Seen as a result of maladaptive environments leading to
abnormal behaviors.
● Approach to Research:
○ Experimental Focus: Research on observable variables, using animals like
rats and pigeons to study simpler systems.
○ Advantages: Allows controlled lab settings for manipulating variables,
though not always practical or ethical for human studies.

Classical Conditioning: Watson and Pavlov

● Foundations of Classical Conditioning:
○ Pavlov’s Experiment: Dogs learned to associate a bell (neutral stimulus)
with food, leading to salivation (conditioned response).
○ Key Terms:

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