PSY 101 Study Guide - Ath, Ney, Karen Horney
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Personality- is defined as an individual"s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Free association (freud)- freud would have his patients spontaneously report their uncensored thoughts, mental images, and feelings as they came to mind. From these free associations the thread that led to long- forgotten memories could be unraveled. Freud"s view of the id- the completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the pleasure principle. Collective unconscious (jung) the hypothesized part of the unconscious mind that is inherited from previous generations and that contains universally shared ancestral experiences and ideas. Reciprocal determinism a model proposed by psychologist albert bandura that explains human functioning and personality as caused by the interaction of behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors. Trait- a relatively stable, enduring pre-disposition to consistently behave in a certain way.
