PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Libido, Freudian Slip, Genital Stage
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+ notion of organization indicates that personality is not just a list of traits but a coherent whole. This organized whole is dynamic in that it is goal seeking, sensitive context, and adaptive to environment. By emphasizing psychophysical systems, allport highlights psychological nature of personality while recognizing that personality arises from basic biological process. Personality causes people to have characteristic behaviors and thoughts (and feelings) = they do and think and feel things relatively consistently over time. Psychodynamic theories emphasize unconscious and dynamic processes: psychodynamic theory: freudian theory that unconscious forces, such as wishes and motives, influence behavior. + referred to these psychic forces as instincts, defining them as mental representations arising out of biological/physical need. Ie: prorposed that people satisfy the life instinct by following the pleasure principle, which directs people to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. + energy that drives pleasure principle is libido.
