APSY-UE 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Oedipus Complex, Reaction Formation, Reality Principle
1 Dec 2016
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Refers to an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Explains the stability of a person"s behavior over time and across situations. Explains the behavioral differences among people in similar situations. A person"s unique set of consistent traits that differentiate them from the people around them. Personality trait: a characteristic pattern of behavior, or a disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. The classic personality inventory is the minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi), which was originally devised to identify emotional disorders. Looks for aspects of personality and potential traits. Mccrae & costa maintain that most personality traits are derived from 5 higher-order traits: These traits seem to be universally applicable, as well as relatively stable throughout adulthood. Attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior. At first, freud thought that hypnosis might unlock the door to the unconsciousness, but ultimately he turned to free association.
