PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Reaction Formation, Erogenous Zone, Oral Stage

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Personality an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting focus: what makes us unique rather than hast we all have in common. Personality theories psychodynamic: nurture, dynamic trait, nature, stable. Psychodynamic theories personality is a dynamic interaction between opposing influences. Sigmund freud what he used both a theory of personality and a theory of psychopathology (and its treatment) theory developed by studying cases of pathology can normal be understood by studying. Levels of mind conscious: relatively small aspect of personality: attempts to repress the unconscious preconscious: Due to differences in the way the three systems interact. Superego: 4-5 years thru adolescence young children: immediate gratification; no sense of right vs. wrong adulthood: delayed gratification; fully developed mortality. Fixation id deprived of pleasure during stage: eg. weaned too early during oral stage fixation at deprived stage corresponding adult abnormal behavior, eg. helplessness, anger, or maladaptive, unconscious but accessible to conscious need for oral gratification unconscious:

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