PSY100Y5 Chapter 12: PSYChapter 12.doc
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Chapter 12: personality: theory, research, and assessment: the nature of personality, defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness, concept of personality is used to explain: Positive emotionality: neuroticism people tend to be highly anxious, hostile, self conscious, insecure and vulnerable. Higher productivity: maintain that personality can be described adequately be measuring the basic traits that they"ve identified. Chanaps: ego decision making component of personality that operates according to the reality personality. Identification bolstering of self esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group. Chapter 12: personality: theory, research, and assessment: development: psychosexual stages. Attributed considerable importance to the manner in which the child is weaned from the breast or the bottle. Fixation at oral stage could form basis for obsessive eating or smoking: anal stage 2 yrs. Children get erotic pleasure from their bowel movements. Toilet training may lead to sexual anxiety, etc: phallic stage 4 yrs.
