Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes -Unconscious Mind, Trait Theory, Impulsivity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Richard Shugar

Document Summary

Personality: the biologically and environmentally determined characteristic within a person that accounts for distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. Only a personality if it observed consistently over time. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory is the most in uential. Believes that an unconscious part of the mind can in uence behaviours. Freud considered personality to be an energy system. Psychic energy: powers the mind and constantly presses for wither direct or indirect release. Conscious: consists of mental events that we are presently aware of. Preconscious: contains memories, thoughts, feelings, and images that we are aware of at the moment but can be called to the conscious mind. Unconscious: a dynamic realm of wishes, feelings, and impulses that lies beyond our awareness. Has three separate but interacting structures: id, ego and superego. Id: exists totally within the conscious mind, is the inner most core of persona;ity, and the only structure present at birth.