Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Anal Retentiveness, Psychosexual Development, Analytical Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Individual differences between people tend to be stable over time and consistent throughout situations. Personality: individual differences that are stable over time and consistent across situations. 4 different perspectives: psychodynamic, behavior, humanistic, biological, trait perspective. **one of the most influential and controversial perspectives*: freud"s psychodynamic perspective. He was never trained as a psychologist yet trained as a medical doctor specialized in neurology. Glove anesthesia (loses all feeling in hand from wrist down as if the glove was preventing sensation in the hand) While working with them, when encouraged to talk about them free associate , the hysterical symptoms suddenly vanished. Why was talking effective: the topology of the mind: conscious mind and unconscious mind. The conscious mind: everything we are aware of at a given moment. The (motivated) unconscious mind: wishes, desires, impulses that are beyond conscious awareness. Conscious mind only plays tiny part compared to unconscious mind.