PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Unconscious Mind

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: John Vervaeke

Document Summary

Personality can be defined as an enduring set of internally based characteristics that serves to produce uniqueness and consistency in the expressions of a person"s thoughts and behaviours, along with an explanation to account for these characteristics. Degree of consistency in the thoughts and behaviours of others. Personality provides an explanation to account for the expression of the behaviour--an inherited tendency. Process of personality: personality accounts for the internal operations producing the unique and consistent expression of an individual"s thoughts and behaviour. Psychodynamic perspectives are mostly closely associated with sigmund freud. Freud made increasing connections between problems that seemed to have emotional bases--even if people were unaware of them. According to freud, the conscious mind is limited to only those mental activities of which the individual is consciously aware of at any given moment. The preconscious mind contains mental information that the individual may not be thinking about at any given moment but can easily gain access to when needed.