PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Anal Stage, Latency Stage, Anal Retentiveness
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Personality: a distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behaviour, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual. Trait: a characteristic of an individual describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, or feeling. Psychoanalysis: a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by sigmund. Psychodynamic theories: theories that explain behaviour and personality in terms of unconscious energy dynamics within the individual. Defn: the part of personality containing inherited psychic energy, particularly sexual and aggressive instincts. Reservoir of unconscious psychological energies and the motives to avoid pain and obtain pleasure. Life or sexual instinct (fuelled by the libido) As energy builds in the id, tension results: ego. Defn: the part of personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self-control. Referee between the needs of instinct and the demands of society. Defn: the part of personality that represents conscience, morality, and social standards. Judges the activities of the id praise and guilt where deserved.
