PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paranoia, Information Processing, Natural Selection
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Ch 12 personality, theory, research, and assessment. Id: must satisfy core drives; seeks instant gratification: pleasure principle whatever you want. Ego: regulates id to satisfy social norms: reality principle referee . Superego: regulates ethics, morality: conscience guilt (your parents) Freud argued that personality developed through series of psychosexual stages. Each new stage produces: frustration, conflict, anxiety. Foremost source of human motivation is to strive for superiority. Compensation: involves efforts to overcome imagined or real inferiorities by developing one"s abilities. People will flaunt their successes to cover up their inferiority complex. Collective unconscious: all humans share universal memories, symbols, images, and themes/archetypes. Jung has positive, forward moving strengths of the ego. Costa and mccrae big 5 personality traits. The five traits are usually pretty stable over lifetime: neuroticism vs. Animal studies: gosling, found that dogs exhibited 4 of big 5 personality traits.
