PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Oral Stage, Collectivism, Shyness
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Personality the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviours that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Personality trait a characteristic; a dispositional tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances. To understand people well is to understand everything about them from biological perspective to the way they think. Classic scientific definition of personality is: the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought. The notion of organization indicates that personality is not just a list of traits but a coherent whole. This organized whole is dynamic in that it is goal seeking, sensitive to context, and adaptive to environment. Psychophysical systems, it is highlighted the psychological processes. This definition stresses that personality causes people to have characteristic behaviours and thoughts (and feelings) Psychodynamic theory made by sigmund freud stats that unconscious forces, such as wishes and motive influence behaviours.
