PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Longitudinal Study, Cortisol, Guilford Press
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If dispositional traits make up a first level of personality, motives and goals are important characteristic adaptations at the second level. Motivational concepts concern the internal forces and factors that energize and direct human behavior, including those most important and recurrent human wants, needs, and desires. Introduced by sigmund freud more than 100 years ago, the psychoanalytic view. 2. of human motivation suggests that behavior is ultimately determined by unconscious sexual and aggressive drives and by the complex intrapsychic conflicts that arise in daily life. Unconscious processes work to repress threatening impulses, thoughts, and feelings. While repression is universal, research suggests that some individuals may use repression more than do others. Repressors report little anxiety on a conscious level, but the adopt a highly defensive approach to life. Research suggests that repressors report fewer negative memories from their past and are able to keep emotionally negative scenes separated from one another in memory.
