PSY100Y5 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 summary
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Chapter 12: personality: theory, research, and assessment: the nature of personality, defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness, concept of personality is used to explain: Positive emotionality: neuroticism people tend to be highly anxious, hostile, self conscious, insecure and vulnerable. Higher productivity: maintain that personality can be described adequately be measuring the basic traits that they"ve identified. Id primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle. i. e. eating: operates according to the pleasure principle demands immediate gratification of its urges. Chanaps: ego decision making component of personality that operates according to the reality personality. Asserted that individuals careen from one conflict to another: believed that conflicts centering on sexual and aggressive impulses are especially likely to have far reaching consequences. i. Attributed considerable importance to the manner in which the child is weaned from the breast or the bottle. Fixation at oral stage could form basis for obsessive eating or smoking: anal stage 2 yrs.
