Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Unconditional Positive Regard, Psychoanalytic Theory, Carl Jung

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Personality traits characterize individuals" customary ways of responding to their world. Chapter 14 personality: consistency in traits becomes greater as we enter adulthood. Interplay of inner forces that often conflict with one another- focus on unconscious determinants of behaviour. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory: believed that patients conversion hysteria were related to painful memories and feelings that were repressed, unconscious part of the mind exerts a great influence on behaviour, used hypnosis, free association, and dream analysis. Discharged via dreams, slips of tongue, or disguised behaviour. Innermost core of personal, source of all psychic energy. Has no direct contact with reality, functions totally irrationally. It operates according to the pleasure principle- seeks immediate gratification or release, regardless of rational considerations and environmental realitiesw. Ego- functions at conscious level: operates according to reality principle- the ego"s tendency to take reality into account and to act in a rational fashion in satisfying its needs.