[PSYC 181] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 46 pages long Study Guide!
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Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. The psychoanalytic perspective: first comprehensive theory of personality focused on (sigmund freud): Unconscious mind: what is going on underneath/ in your mind. Exploring the unconscious- he would ask them to think of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Association technique- he would ask a very open ended question and just let the person talk. If he would just let his patients talks some painful memory would come up and he would pry more into that memory. He had upper class women- a lot of things that people couldn"t talk about. After they release these awkward memories the patients would feel better. Everything above water is conscious, anything under is unconscious, and the thin line of preconscious (outside awareness but accessible). We still retain a lot of these principles, but they are updated. The mind is not necessarily separated into three specific parts: ego (executive mediator): both conscious and unconscious.
