PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neuroticism, Sigmund Freud
11 Dec 2018
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Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of thinking, behaving, and feeling. Self-report: method in which people provide subjective information about their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors (typically via a questionnaire or interview) e. g. mmpi (minnestoa muliphasic personality inventory) 338 self-descriptive statements: read the statement (does it apply or not) Psychologist proposed their ideas of a trait: (same thing different words: gordon allport: preexisting dispositions or causes of behavior that reliable trigger the behavior (the trait causes the behavior, henry murray: traits reflect motive. If you are hungry, a person might go for fast food or a snack bar. A person has a need for orderliness. Psychodynamic approach: an approach that regards personality as formed by needs, strivings, and tires largely operating outside of awareness motives that can produce emotional disorders. Id pleasure principle: the drives that are present at birth; is the source of bodily needs, wants, disires.
