PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Big Five Personality Traits, Personal Unconscious, Behaviorism
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Chapter 12: personality: theory, research, and assessment: the nature of personality, defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness, concept of personality is used to explain: Positive emotionality: neuroticism people tend to be highly anxious, hostile, self conscious, insecure and vulnerable. Higher productivity: maintain that personality can be described adequately be measuring the basic traits that they"ve identified. Id primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle. i. e. eating: operates according to the pleasure principle demands immediate gratification of its urges. Chanaps: ego decision making component of personality that operates according to the reality personality. Asserted that individuals careen from one conflict to another: believed that conflicts centering on sexual and aggressive impulses are especially likely to have far reaching consequences. i. Identification bolstering of self esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group. Chapter 12: personality: theory, research, and assessment: development: psychosexual stages.
