PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Agreeableness, Extraversion And Introversion, Peak Experience

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Personality: characteristic patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion that determine a person"s adjustment to the environment. 2 main goals of personality psychology: describes and explain individual differences, synthesize the influences on a person into an integrated account of the person. 4 basic approaches to personality theory: psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, social-cognitive. Is often hidden being primarily determined by unconscious mental forces: development occurs in conjunction with frustration and conflict of basic needs. Freud"s major areas of contribution to psychology: clinical psychology. *didn"t work with kids, based his theories of observations made on adults. Interest in neurology and in treatment of nervous disorders. Basically things he couldn"t diagnose hysteria meant wandering wound mostly women. Influenced by jean charcot who could produce symptoms of hysteria by hypnosis. *decided that hysteria must have a psychological basis. Influenced by josef bruer who used the talking cure (talking it out catharsis) *problems with hypnosis not all patients hypnotizable.