PY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Birth Order, Mental Representation, Rorschach Test
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The characteristics thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an. In-class notes personality induvial over time and across circumstances. Personality trait: characteristic or tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances. There are a lot of personality theories. Believed that any unconscious wish or desire motivates you behavior and determines how you were going to act. Tramtic experiences will shape who you are. Unconscious: thing that aren"t easily access. Most of personality is working at the unconscious level and you do not know why you do things. Id: tries to get you what you want and anything you want, food, sex, money, pleasure principle. Superego: societal and parental standards of conduct, laws of society. Ego: thiers to satisfy you and the wishes of the id, being responsible to the dictates of the superego, operates according to the reality principle. Baby stage, eat seek pleasure through the mouth: anal.