PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sigmund Freud, Belongingness, Narcissism
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Chapter 12: personality theory, research, and assessment. Five-factor model of personality: raymond cattell (1000s, gordon allport (16, mcrae and costa (5) traits. Agreeableness sympathetic, people tend to like you, care about others. Consciousness (constraint) punctual, careful life, care about self. Openness to experience- open to try new things. Grand" theories: sigmund freud (psychoanalytic, carl jung (analytic psychology) branch of psychodynamic theory, alfred alder (individual psychology) (psychoanalytic) model of personality structure. Look at the defence mechanisms in the textbook*: repression, projection, displacement, reaction formation, regression, rationalization, identification, sublimation. Carl jung (analytic psychology) branch of psychodynamic theory: dropped psycho from the psychoanalytic psych that freud said, two layers of the unconscious mind. Alfred alder (individual psychology: striving for superiority, compensation. Appearances >reality: birth order and personality. The only normal people are the ones you don"t know very well. Internal conflict often plays a role in psychological distress: early childhood can impact adult personality, people do use defence mechanisms.
