HPS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genital Stage, Reality Principle, Personal Construct Theory
25 Jul 2018
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Personality is the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterise a perso(cid:374)s respo(cid:374)ses to life situatio(cid:374)s . This definition suggest that: personality is organised an structured (distinctive and relatively enduring, behaviour is internally driven (rather than from environmental factors, personality has behavioural components. Personality typically has three characteristics: behavioural components, behaviour is internally driven (cognitive and affective, organised and structured. Spotlight theorist: sigmund freud (1856-1939): first to propose the idea of personality, developed influential theory of personality based on patient observation (rejected the use of experiments to test his ideas) Divied personalit into three separate but interacting structures: Ps(cid:455)chose(cid:454)ual stages are de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal phases (cid:449)here the id(cid:859)s pleasure-seeing tendencies are focused on erogenous zones. Each stage presents challenges that must overcame: fixation- failure to progress to the next stage, regression- retreating to an earlier stage due to stress. Your experiences of these stages your adult personality. Oral stage: on self-indulgence and adult dependency.
