PSYC 2310 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Dynamics of Behaviour Notes
17 Dec 2011
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Personality: the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to life situations. It"s inside you, not the environment: organized: the person"s behaviours seem to fit together in a meaningful fashion, suggesting an inner personality that guides and directs behaviour. The pattern fits together" and has meaning. Psychodynamic theorists look for the causes of behaviour in a dynamic interplay of inner forces that often come into contact with one another. Conversion hysteria: disorder in which physical symptom such as paralysis and blindness appeared suddenly & with no apparent physical cause. Freud concluded these patient"s symptoms were due to painful memories and feelings that seemed to have been repressed, or pushed out of awareness. When patients were able to re-experience these traumatic memories and feelings (often sexual/aggressive), their physical symptoms often disappeared. Freud was convinced that an unconscious part of the mind exerts great influence on behaviour.
