PSYC 2000 : Test 4
Document Summary
Personality encompasses the unique and relatively stable way a person thinks, acts and. Personality feels throughout his/her life: distinct from character and temperament. Personality: 3 perspectives on the development of personality, psychodynamic, behavioral and social cognitive, humanistic, perspective that emphases description and prediction: trait theory perspective, personality assessment. Psychodynamic perspective: focuses on the role of the unconscious in the development of personality, heavily focused on biological causes of personality differences and importance of successfully resolving conflicts at each stage of psychosexual development across childhood. Freud: id, ego, superego id: instincts: ego: reality, superego: morality. Psychoanalysis: defense mechanisms: psychological defense mechanisms: unconscious distortions of a person"s perception of reality that reduce stress. Examples of defense mechanisms: sublimation: turning socially unacceptable behavior into something acceptable, denial: refusing to acknowledge the threatening situation rationalization: the person invents acceptable excuses for unacceptable feelings or behavior. Neo-freudians: still focused on early development, more social, less sexual, jung, adler, horney, erikson.
