PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unconscious Mind, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness
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Chapter 13: personality: personality is the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual across time and circumstance. Personality trait a characteristic that makes up a part of one"s personality. Moods can vary, personality is stable: temperament, mood, and emotion, temperament associated with personality, you"re born with it. It"s relatively stable across your lifetime: mood shorter-term emotional state, can last for hour or days, moods can be caused by external circumstances, emotion very short term. Lasts for shorter periods: more extreme than moods and temperaments; more intense, very specific, triggered by specific events, sigmund freud. Psychodynamic theory behavior is determined by unconscious forces, including wishes, desires, and hidden memories. Conscious: ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are aware. There are levels of consciousness: preconscious: material that can be easily recalled, unconscious: well below the surface of awareness.
