PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Factor Analysis, Trait Theory, Preconscious
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Ex. honest, suspicious, anxious, excitable, friendly: factor analysis correlations, many variables are analyzed to indentify closely related clusters of variables, five factor model of personality traits. Psychodynamic theories: include all the diverse theories descended form the work of sigmund freud. Focus on unconscious mental forces: freud"s psychoanalytic theory. Attempts to explain personality, motivation, and psychological disorders by focusing on the influence of: early childhood experiences, unconscious motives and conflicts, methods people use to cope with sexual and aggressive urges. Requires lengthy verbal interactions with patients: allows one to look deeply into the life of the other. Divided into three structures: the id, primitive, instinctive component of personality, operates according to the pleasure principle. Referred to as the reservoir of psychic energy: houses the raw biological urges that energize human behaviour. Demands immediate gratification of its urges: engages in primary process thinking.
