PSYC 102 Study Guide - Inferiority Complex, 16Pf Questionnaire, The Need

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Brooke Seal

Document Summary

Defn: the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Three characteristics to the thoughts, feelings, and actions (behaviours) that reflect in one"s personality: components of identity that distinguish from another person, caused primarily by internal vs. environmental factors, meaningfully fashioned/ fit-together. Theophrastus (4th century bc; aristotle"s pupil; compiled lists of athenian society personality types during alexandra) E. g: the unseasonable man the penurious man, the garrulous man, the inopportune man. Looks for causes of behaviour in dynamic interplay of inner forces that often conflict with one another; focuses on unconscious determinants of behaviour. Used magnetism; eventually became hypnosis: darwin, mesmer, charcot, breuer: French neurologist; worked with patients that had physical symptoms with no apparent cause, therefore psychological? (i. e. if someone had hysteria, they linked it to being from a history of abuse)