PSYC 1000U Study Guide - Final Guide: Unconscious Mind, Unconsciousness, Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Introduction to personality and psychodynamic theories: personality. Is individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Trait theories: focus on inner capacities for growth and self- fulfillment, examine characteristic patterns of behavior, posit that behavior is dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious mind. Social-cognitive theories: explore interaction between traits and social context. Freud"s psychoanalytic perspective: perspective exploring the unconscious: observed patients whose disorders had no clear physical explanations, concluded their problems reflected unacceptable thoughts and feelings, hidden away in the unconscious mind. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories; according to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
