PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Behaviorism, Reaction Formation, Social Forces

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Complex problems that combine abusive relationships, important family adjustment problems, clear emotional distress, and more. Often reduced to one simple enlightened answer which can easily be fixed by a directive solution. Personality: an individual"s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours persisting over time and across situations. Personality develops in a dynamic (aka changing over time) interplay between conscious and unconscious processes. The struggle of inner forces that interact to make us who we are. Change of perspective: physical symptoms could be caused by purely psychological factors. Formulated a theory of the structure of human personality and development. The theory and his therapeutic technique was called psychoanalysis. At the start of life personality is made up of the id (pleasure principle) Then the ego developed (reality principle) negotiartes the demands of the id with reality and, later, with the superego.