Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Syphilis, Speech Disorder, Sexually Transmitted Infection

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

The distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Characteristics of behaviours seen as reflecting a personality: Perceived internal cause: caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors. Perceived organization and structure: the person"s behaviours seem to fit together in a meaningful fashion. Causes of behaviour as a dynamic interplay of inner forces that often conflict with one another/ unconscious determinants of behaviour. Freud worked with jean charcot dealing with patients with conversion hysteria. Convinced freud that an unconscious part of the mind exerts great influence on behaviour. He began to experiment with various techniques to access the unconscious mind: Free association (saying whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing) Psychoanalysis became a theory of personality, an approach to studying the mind, and a method for treating psychological disorders. Instinctual drives generate psychic energy (hydraulic models/steam engine based)