PSYC101 Lecture 19: Week 11 Lecture, Personality theories
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Differing conception of the person to these theories. Personality is an individual"s characteristic pattern of thought, behaviour, and emotions. Psychoanalysis freud, jung, adler (psychodynamic conflict) Drive : internal states to engage in behaviour to reverse condition. Non-regulatory drives such as sx, no survival role. Society and self desires of individual vs society. Mind-closed energy system express energy or redirect it. Preconscious ideas accessible but not in consciousness currently. Unconscious incompatible with current conception of self, or waking life. Primary process thinking: unable to distinguish real from fantasised objects and is dreamlike, relates to world via ego. Reality principle : gratification of wishes delayed aif threatened self preservation of individual, internalised, identification with parents. Emerges from ego 2-5 years of age. Repression force unpleasant thought from awareness. Projection attribute own thoughts to another. Displacement divert feelings from source to another figure. Reaction formation behave in a way opposite to how feel. Behaviourism and social learning patterns of thinking and behaving.
