PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Rorschach Test, Shy People, Genital Stage

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Personality: the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviours that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Personality trait: a characteristic, a dispositional tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances. Some emphasize biological/genetic factors; others emphasize culture, patterns of reinforcement, or mental and unconscious processes: to understand people well is to understand everything about them. Therefore, personality psychologists approach the study of personality on all levels. Psychodynamic theory: freudian theory that unconscious forces, such as wishes and motives influence behaviour: referred to these psychic forces as instincts (mental representations arising out of biological or physical need) Life instinct can be viewed as the desire to satisfy libidinal urges for pleasure; when multiple forces are in conflict it leads to mental illness: the energy that drives the pleasure principle is the libido. At the conscious level people are aware of their thoughts.

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