PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Penis Envy, Abusive Power And Control, Ambiguous Image

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Simon Lolliot

Document Summary

An individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Sigmund freud proposed that children sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality. Trait theories examine characteristic patterns of behaviour. Social cognitive theories explore the interaction between people"s traits and their social context. View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. From freud"s psychoanalysis, personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Freud"s psychoanalytic perspective: exploring the unconscious: freud discovered the unconscious according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Human personality arises from a conflict between impulse. Personality arises from our efforts to resolve basic conflicts. Id a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.