PSYC 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unconditional Positive Regard, Gallbladder, Phallic Stage
17 Feb 2014
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An imbalance or deficiency of any of these four distinct bodily fluids, directly influences their temperature, personality and health. (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood) James braid coined the term hypnosis, a nervous sleep. Altered or special state of consciousness functionally different from waking. Access to unconscious-freud-hypnosis is the royal road to the unconscious . Understanding the basic elements or structures of mental life. Emphasis on functions of the mind and behaviour adapting to the environment. Behavioural neuroscience: centrality of the brain and nervous system in understanding behaviour (biological) Evolutionary psychology: importance of adaptation reproduction and survival of the fittest . Personality is psychodynamic in nature: personality is primarily unconscious, develops in stages. Psychoanalytic theory: freuds psychodynamic perspective, conscious and unconscious, psychoanalysis: a clinical method for treating psychopathy through dialogue between a patient and psychoanalyst, major components of personality, id. Controls: defence mechanisms, rationalization, projection, repression.
