Psychology 2040A/B Final: FINAL.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Michael G Mac Donald

Document Summary

Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations: guided by: psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, behavioral, cognitive and sociocultural perspectives. Theory- provides comprehensive framework within which known facts can be incorporated, allows us to predict future events with some precision and stimulates the discovery of new knowledge. behaviour. Studied hysteria with charcot, began to experiment using techniques of hypnosis, free association and dream analysis. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory: considered personality to be an energy system of the day, psychic energy generated by instinctual drives, this energy powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. Buildup of sexual energy can be discharged directly through sexual activity, or indirectly through fantasies or artistic depictions: mental events are divided: Conscious events that we are presently aware of. Preconscious memories, thoughts, feelings, images that we are unaware of at the moment, but can be recalled.