PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Genital Stage, Rorschach Test, Libido

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

Document Summary

Personality the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Concepts of personality may reflect historical and cultural forms of individuality. Optimistic or pessimistic about the possibility of personality change. Projective measures: personality tests that examine unconscious processes by having people interpret ambiguous stimuli. Objective measures: relatively direct assessments of personality, usually based on information gathered through self report questionnaires or observer ratings. A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Id: unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, demanding immediate gratification. Superego: provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. Ego: functions as executive and mediates the demands of id and superego (largely conscious) Pleasure: the id"s boundless drive for immediate gratification. Reality principle: the ego"s capacity to delay gratification. A method used to analyze the conscious mind through interpreting the manifest and latent contents of dreams.