PSY100H1 Lecture 12: Week 12_ Personality
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Think: idiographic idiot (person-centred) person-centred , focus on individual lives. Think: nomo naming (naming unique traits) Personality: the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Defense mechanisms: unconscious mental strategies the mind uses to protect itself. Repression: forcing distressing memories and feelings into the unconscious victim of rape in childhood unable to recall details in adulthood. Reaction formation: unacceptable thoughts in unconscious expressed as opposite in conscious. Activist against homosexuality fantasizes having sex with same-sex individual. Projection: attributing one"s unacceptable thoughts and motives to others. Easing one"s guilt about cheating by believing others are also cheating. Regresion: reacting to threatening situation with response characteristic of earlier stage development. Acting like a baby by throwing a temper tantrum at work. Sublimation: transforming inappropriate impulses and motives into socially acceptable and even valuable expressions. Developing career as a scientist studying deviant sexual behavior to satisfy one"s own atypical sexual desires.
