Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heritability, Collective Unconscious, Inferiority Complex
5 Oct 2015
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They want to play with it so badly they momentarily disregard the difference between size of toy and size of their own body! Sense of scale is so fragile that their emotions can override their perception of self! Big five higher-order personality traits: neuroticism (negative emotionality), extraversion (positive emotionality), openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness! Freud"s view of personality structure and the role of con ict and anxiety. Three assumptions: 1. personality is governed by unconscious forces we cant control: childhood experiences play a signify role in determining adult personality, personality is shaped by the manner in which individuals cope with sexual urges! Freud argued that personality is divided in three structures:! Behaviour is result of ongoing internal is con ict among id ego and superego! con icts stemming from sexual and aggressive urges are esp. signi cant. Such con icts arouse anxiety, so we use defense mechanisms largely unconscious.
