Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Extraversion And Introversion, Situation Two, Mania

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Quilan

Document Summary

Personality traits characterize individuals in customary ways. Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, felling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Are viewed as being caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors. Fit together in a meaningful fashion, suggesting that inner personality guides and directs behaviour. Personality has been guided by the psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, cognitive and sociocultural perspectives. These proved different conceptions of what personality is. Even theorists have their own personalities that influence how they perceive and understand themselves in their world. Conscious mental events that we are presently aware of. Preconscious contains memories, thoughts, feelings and images that we are unaware of at the moment but that can be called into conscious awareness. Unconscious: divided personality into three separate but interacting structures: In the unconscious mind, innermost core of personality, the only structure present at birth, source of psychic energy.