CC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Depression (Mood), Conscientiousness
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Defining personality: the stable and distinct ways in which individuals think, feel and behave in social interactions, eg. Psychodynamic perspective: personality is the product of a dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious mental structures, early developmental conflicts. Traits perspective: personality is the combination of various stable dispositional qualities that a person exhibits. Sigmund freud: conscious, preconscious, unconscious, reservoir of energy and basic instincts, eg. Ego: basic unconscious human drives, pleasure principle, regulation of id impulses according to environmental demands, reality principle. Superego: conscience: internalized standards of right and wrong, socialization. Development of personality: importance of sexuality, psychosocial sexual stages of development, a series of age-dependent stages requiring the resolution of particular conflicts or tasks, eg. Oral stage: birth to 1 year, erogenous zone-mouth. Fixation: failure to resolve a conflict at a particular stage of development. Fixation at the oral stage: manipulative personality, sadism. Anxiety and defence mechanisms: the ego"s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
