PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Autonomic Nervous System, Albert Bandura, Reality Television

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Personality- a person"s characterisic patern of thinking, feeling and acing: sigmund freud"s psychoanalyic theory proposed that- childhood sexuality and unconscious moivaions inluence personality, humanisic approach focused on our inner capaciies for growth and self-fulillment. Personality view human behaviour as a dynamic interacion between the conscious and unconscious mind (associated moive and conlicts) Freud, discovered more about the unconscious, and that blindness and deafness might be caused by not waning to see or hear something. Free associaion: told paient to relax and say whatever came to mind. Allowed him to retrace to the paient"s unconscious could be retrieved and released. Someimes of the thoughts we store in a preconscious area from which we can retrieve them into conscious awareness. Without our awareness, these troublesome feeling and ideas powerfully inluence us gain expressions (work we do, beliefs we hold, daily habits, our troubling symptoms) Jokes, dreams are all expressions of repressed tendencies.