PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Electra Complex, Reaction Formation, Abraham Maslow
26 Jul 2018
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What is personality: a mask we use to present to others, an enduring inner core that embodies our distinct pattern of thoughts, feelings, motives, values, and behaviors. Our behavior is function of contingencies of reinforces in the environment: psychogenetic approach. 5 personality traits called the big 5. Agreeableness- find common ground vs. not work together. Born on may 6, 1856 in czech republic. Very smart, loved to read, went to university of vienna. Etiology and treatment of hysteria (conversion disorder) Much more prominent in charcot"s time than now. Hysteria is experience of physical impairment without physical cause. People said that people with hysteria was faking it, but charcot determined that it was psychological disorder. Hysteria patients mostly had trauma in childhood. To cure, place patient in hypnotic state and make hypnotic suggestions. Hour and half in the morning she would voice her hysteria and hallucinations.
