PSY E111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Individualism, Sigmund Freud, Oral Stage
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Personality: unique and stable ways people think, feel and behave; Character: value judgments of morality and ethics; how people approach situations. Temperament: emotional reactivity to situations where personality develops. Cultural background: victorian era sexual repression: sex for procreation; mistresses satisfied men"s uncontrollable sexual desires. Conscious (ego) : contact with outside world. Preconscious (superego) : material just beneath the surface of awareness; (ex: the last party you went to) things weren"t originally thinking about. Unconscious (id) : difficult to retrieve material; well below the surface of awareness. Id: inner child; part of the personality that is forever a three year old terrible; the part of you that really wants something and does not care what it has to do to get it. Superego: incredibly moralistic part of the personality; high levels of expectations, morality and appropriateness; Angel (superego) on one shoulder and the devil (id) on the other; center is the ego.
