PSYCO105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Unconscious Mind, Personal Unconscious, Psychosexual Development
9 May 2016
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Personality traits: characterizes individuals customary ways of responding to their world. Personality: distinctive and enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterizes a persons response to life situations. Three characteristics that reflect personality: 1) identity components that distinguish a person from others, 2) behaviours are caused primarily by internal factors, 3) behaviours fit together, inner personality guiding and directing behaviour. Causes of behaviour driven by inner forces, conflicting with one another and the unconscious. Sigmund freud: treated patients suffering from hysteria, his experiences convinced him that the patients symptoms were related to repressed painful memories, re experiencing these things led to improved symptoms. This brought him to experiment with accessing the unconscious mind: through hypnosis, free association, and dream analysis. In 1900, published a book on dream analysis, attracted attention and paved the way for further research. Psychic energy: generated by instinctual drives, powers the mind and presses for direct or indirect release.
