PSYCH101 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Lecture 9 notes

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

Document Summary

Personality (personality trait): something that is relatively stable, consistent across time and situations; individual differences are shown (people will differ in the extent to which they possess the trait): trait vs. state: example of shyness. Shy in certain situations only (i. e. strangers, authority, opposite sex, public appearance). Minimal negative consequences and possibly positive consequences (i. e. may elicit empathic response). His unfulfilled longing for his mother"s affection and oedipal strivings led to castration fear, aggravated by the fact that his father was realistically a threatening figure. With the stimulation of sexual drive at puberty, john"s wishes assumed incestuous implications. All sexual interest consequently became taboo, and shyness ensues, the result of repression. In shyness the traumatic force of the social event begins with a displacement of a dangerous grandiosity from elsewhere in the patient"s life where it is active in a subjectively more benign form.