Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Psychosexual Development, Inferiority Complex, Psychoticism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Refers to the observation that people seem to behave somewhat consistently over time and across different situations this happens because personality traits produce customary ways of responding to the world. Personality the distinctive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Focuses on studying person-by-situation interactions in their efforts to understand the distinctive behaviours of individuals. Personality has three characteristics: lets us distinguish people from one another, a behaviour that is caused by internal factors and not environmental factors, behaviours that fit together in a meaningful fashion. Freud entered a fellowship with jean charcot. Jean charcot was treating patients who suffered from a disorder called conversion hysteria where patients showed physical symptoms of paralysis and blindness with no apparent physical cause. Freud was convinced that their symptoms were related to painful memories and feelings that seemed to have been repressed. Once the patients re-experienced these memories their symptoms improved.