Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Defence Mechanisms, Analytical Psychology, Sexual Attraction
9 Nov 2016
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People are different but they are consistent in their personality and decide consistent. Individual differences in traits and behaviours that are stable over time and consistent across situations. Distinctiveness people behave difference in the same situation. Personality trait durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Developed a procedure called psychoanalysis: length conversations with patients that goes deeper into the patients life. Argued that the unconscious mind governs the human behaviour. Individual personality is shaped by how we cope with sexual urges: hysteria: unusual symptoms (but no physical basis, ex. Glove anaesthesia (loses feeling from the wrist to the hand: childhood sexual experiences with adults are the cause of hysterical. The conscious mind: everything we are aware of at a given moment. Cant just impulsively have sex with someone have to: ex. The 3 structures interact with each other (negotiate how libidinal energy will.
