Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Observational Learning, Unconscious Mind, Determinism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Personality: the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a persons responses to life situations. Psychodynamic look for causes of behaviour in a dynamic interplay of inner forces that often conflict with one another also focus on unconscious determinants of behaviour. Freud psychoanalytic theory was first and most influential. Psychoanalytic theory convinced that an unconscious part of the mind exerts great influence on behaviour hypnosis, free association and dream analysis based his theory on careful clinical observation and constantly sought to expand it. Freud considered personality to be an energy system. Instinctual drives generate psychic energy, which powers the mind and constantly presses for direct or indirect release. Structure of personality divided personality into three structures: id, ego, and superego. Ego: at conscious level, operates according to the reality principle, tests reality to decide when and under what conditions the id can safely discharge its impulses and satisfy its needs.