PSYC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dreamwork
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Defined as the characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling of an individual. Differences in personality are concerned with prior events and anticipated events that affect personality. Psychoanalysis (freud) - used clinical experience to develop comprehensive theory of personality. His top proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivation inuence personality. Used to treat psychological disorders by exposing and interpreting unconscious tensions. Chain of thoughts lead to painful, unconscious memories. Retrieving and releasing these memories cause patients to feel better. Freud"s structure of personality: id (unconscious), ego (unconscious, preconscious, conscious), superego (unconscious, preconscious, conscious). Id : present from birth operates according to the pleasure principle. 2 competing instincts - life (sexual), death (aggressive). Superego : moral conscience that develops around age 5. Stores and enforces rules (inner voice that tells you to not do something or that tells u something is wrong). Subsystems of superego: ego ideal = parents" approve/value.
