CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Penis Envy, Thematic Apperception Test, Conscientiousness

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Joseph Harris

Document Summary

Chapter 13: personality: definitions, consistency - all individuals tend to behave, think, and feel in certain ways that is fairly consistent across time and situation. Freud"s theory of personality: level"s of consciousness - freud viewed what we were aware of at any time (conscious level) as only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath this level was the vast majority of our consciousness. The preconscious is just below the conscious level. This contains memories and stored knowledge which we are not immediately aware of but which we can retrieve at any time. Beneath the preconscious and forming the largest portion of the human mind is the unconscious. These are thoughts, desires, and impulses of which we are not aware. Even though we are not aware of these, freud saw these as controlling our behavior and it is the goal of psychoanalysis to get at these unconscious factors: three components of personality (a) id: present at birth.