PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 10: Reaction Formation, Genital Stage, Phlegm

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

12. 1 contemporary approaches to personality: personality a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to everyone, Week 10 readings and remains relatively consistent over time and situations: 2 approaches to personality measurement. How genes affect personality: nature vs. nurture, twin studies, families share genes and environments, how do you know which is influencing personality, adoption proves this as well as the child often does not have same personality as. Increased genetic similarity that is responsible for similar personalities among twins adoptive parents. The psychodynamic perspective: personality and behaviour shaped by powerful forces in consciousness, no mistakes, little control over ourselves, little insight into reasons for our own behaviour. Defence mechanisms: unconscious strategies the ego uses to reduce or avoid anxiety, repression, denial, rationalization, displacement. Inferiority complex the struggle many people have with feelings of inferiority, which stem from experiences of helplessness and powerlessness during childhood: try to be or appear superior to others, karen horney.