PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Intentionality, Comprehensive School, Albert Bandura
9 Dec 2013
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People behave somewhat consistently over time and across different situations: consistency becomes greater as we enter adulthood. Even in adulthood there"s a capacity for meaningful personality change. Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterizes a person"s response to life situations. Is guided by the psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, behavioural, cognitive, and sociocultural perspective. These look for causes of behaviour in a dynamic interplay of inner forces that often conflict with one another. Sigmund freud was first and most influential theory. Conversion hysteria where physical symptoms like paralysis and blindness appear suddenly and with no apparent physical cause. Believed that an unconscious part of the mind exerts great influence on behaviour. So psychoanalysis became a theory of personality, an approach to studying the mind. Freud considered personality to be an energy system. Psychic energy powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release.
