PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Machismo, Reality Principle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Across time - personal factor and dispositional factors and environmental influences. Across situations - if you are shy in one instant you will find yourself hsy in another instant as well. Special blends - that make you difficult to predict in a way, they will make you similar to draw the broad strokes. Flexibility versus rigidity - if you are dominant and domineering and have difficulty not being the boss, then this will cause problems . Some individuals are very sensitive to some cues, they will tend to show restraint. Its hard to predeict 100% of what a person would be like just with personalyt traits. Behavior and personality is based on early experience. Unresolved conflicts over sexual and aggressive instincts form the basis of personality. The structure of personality: id (birth onward, ego (3 years onward, superego (5 years onward) Aqsa kidwai: id where life and death instincts reside (sex and aggression)