Biology 4611F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unconditional Positive Regard, Julian Rotter, Social Learning Theory
23 Jul 2015
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Personality: from the idea that people behave consistently over time in different situations, personality traits: unique to how person acts ins situations. Personality: combined idea of individuality and consistency: distinctive and enduring ways of thinking, feeling and acting as a response to different situations. When they were induced to remember/ experience these memories and acted in an aggressive/ sexual way- symptoms disappeared: convinced that unconscious mind had a role, access to bind with hypnosis, free association and dream analysis. Idea of psychoanalysis become a theory of personality and a way to treat disorders. Only seen when unconscious desires discharge indirectly (in a dream) Id: core of personality unconscious: present at birth, no direct contact with reality/ functions, pleasure principle: immediate gratification/ release does not matter what conditions it is in. No contact with outer world cannot satisfy own needs: ego: middle man conscious level, reality principle: decides when id"s needs can be satisfied according to external world.
