PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Anna Freud, Freudian Slip, Anal Stage
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Personality is not real, its an idea; Hypothetical constructs: an abstract concept that we use because it seems to express or capture something important about out experiences; help us organize and understand out experiences. Each approach represents a perspective about personality with a different set of assumptions about what personality is, how it develops and how it should be studied. Type approach: assumes that there are a small number of distinct personality type. Proposed by hippocrates, he believed that the human body was made of four humours : blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile, with personality determined by the balance of these four humours ex. Melancholic (black bile) personality type (sad and wistful) Psychodynamic approach, humanistic approach, trait approach, cognitive approach. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory of personality was the first modern theory of personality, and had an enormous impact on our thinking about personality and human nature.
