PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Collective Unconscious, Warning Sign, Ego Ideal
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Personality explains how the expression of each individual"s thoughts and behavior is different. How reliable your personality is depending on the situations. Personality describes how the behavior of the individual is consistent over time and across situations. Personality accounts for the internal operations producing the unique and consistent expression of an individual"s thoughts and behaviour. Ex: therapist"s assumption about the history of physical abuse as an explanation to account for the symptoms of ptsd. Account for individual difference in thinking, feeling, and behaving. Different perspectives help you understand the complexity of personality. An approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience. Emphasizes social relationships and conscious awareness as basis for personality expression (carl jung, alfred adler, karen horney) Freud"s psychoanalytic perspective: conflict at the core of personality focus on hysteria and etiology of hysteria and neuroses.
