PSYC 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Extraversion And Introversion, Oral Stage, Factor Analysis
12 Apr 2017
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Personality = an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychodynamic theories = view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis = freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. The id is unconscious energy strives to satisfy basic dives to survive, reproduce and aggress. Study done on anti-gay men who watched videos of homosexual men together had greater arousal compared to men without those attitsudes. Even though they said they weren"t aroused: projection. Todays false-consensus effect overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs: rationalization, displacement, denial. Neo-freudian has similar focus but more on the conscious minds" role in interpreting experience and in coping with the environment. Projective tests: a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics, a psychological x-ray.
