PSYC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hans Eysenck, Gordon Allport, Unconscious Mind
15 Jul 2016
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Chapter 13 personality: the unique characteristics that account for enduring patterns of inner experience and outward behaviour. Psychodynamic perspective - freud (mid 20th century) emphasizes unconscious. Freud: personality forms as result of struggles between primal needs and social or moral restraints personality and behaviour shaped by interacting/dynamic underlying forces. Top level: conscious visible to outside world composed of thoughts and feelings we are aware of at any given moment. Second level: preconscious thoughts, memories, ideas that can be easily brought to conscious mind. Deepest level: unconscious unaware of this content, cannot become aware of it except under special circumstances impo to development of personality. ^ forces always in con ict to some degree unresolved con ict > personality problems and psychological disorders. Anxiety and defence mechanisms defence mechanisms: unconscious tactics employed by the ego to protect the individual from anxiety. Idea that parent-child relationship in uential to later life.
