Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Unconscious Mind, Personal Unconscious, Preconscious

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

Document Summary

Each of us is in certain respects like all other people, like some other people, and like no other person who has lived in the past or will exist in the future. Concept of personality also rests on the observation that people seem to behave somewhat consistently over time and across different situations. Personality: distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations: personality has three characteristics. They are seen as components of identity. The behaviors are viewed as being caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors. The person"s behaviors seem to fit together in a meaningful fashion, suggesting an inner personality that guides and directs behavior. Freud considered personality to be an energy system, somewhat like the steam engines of his day. Instinctual drives generate psychic energy, which powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release.