PSYC 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parachuting, Sympathetic Nervous System, Takers
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Characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that people display over time and across situations and that distinguish individuals from each other this definition of personality will show up word for word on exam. Many of these terms represent traits (reviewed later) Psychoanalysis: a talking cure, a very specific set of therapy techniques used to cure pysc illnesses. Iceberg pic: the visible tip is what people can see thoughts, feelings, and motivations of which you are aware of. Preconscious level: easily brought to consciousness- memory o. Iceberg pic: just below the surface, easily accessed: think of something- that went from preconscious level to conscious. Iceberg pic: the lowest, deepest part that no one can see. The id: unconscious level, present at birth, home to sexual and aggressive drives, governed by the pleasure principle. Wanting immediate gratification of its needs by reductions in pain, discomfort, or tension, regardless of consequences: animalistic part of brain, no morals or conscience o o.
