PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Shyness, Oedipus Complex, Unconscious Mind

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Shy in certain situations only (ex. strangers, authority, opposite sex, public appearance) Minimal negative consequence and possibly positive consequences (ex. may elicit empathetic response) Enjoy social events and meeting new people. Promotes excessive self-consciousness and self-preoccupation (ex. introversion) Prone to low self-esteem, stress, loneliness, and depression. Psychodynamic - a very important part to development, and how they maintain balance in their lives, affects their personality. The unresolved issues are going to be deep into the unconscious mind. With stimulation of sexual drive at puberty, john"s wishes assumed incestuous implications. Shyness is the issue- it is the behaviour, as a behaviourist would suggest. What we see is a personality; it is not an inward kind of thing. Whole idea is that personality is just a response tendency that has been built up overtime. So when we come into contact with certain situations, our personalities come from the experiences that we have learned and experienced- appearing across circumstances: ex.