PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gender Identity, Situation Two, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Dreamworks defenses (defense mechanisms while we dream: condensation. Experience anxiety, you dream that you"re running and feels like lead in your legs: displacement. Use as an escape boat and puts traits on someone: symbolization. Relates to persons experience and meaning to it. When id gets strong, ego kicks in. In more extreme situations the id can resurface through neurotic anxiety. Id impulses can be expressed in disguised ways. Years ago to study personality used phrenology. Feel a skull for dips and bumps and if there was a bump on an area there was a specific personality train there. Body type, you had a number of personality traits. Persons typical pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving. Major reasons for studying personality is for predication in a particular situations. Personality testing has gone on for years. October 6, 2015: consistency: over time and across situation, distinctiveness: addresses our individual differences.