PSY 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Heredity
2 Dec 2016
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Personality: the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave. Character: value judgements made about a person"s moral and ethical behavior. Temperament: the enduring characteristics wither which each person is born. Conscious mind: level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perspective. Preconscious mind: level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious. Unconscious mind: level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness are kept. Id: part of the personality present at birth; completely unconscious: pleasure principle: the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for consequences. Ego: part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality; mostly conscious, rational, and logical: reality principle: the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result. Denial: the person refuses to acknowledge or recognize a threatening situation.
