PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 13
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Personality the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave. Character value judgments of a person"s moral and ethical behavior. Temperament the enduring characteristics with which each person is born: easy: regular, adaptable, and happy, difficult: irregular, non-adaptable, and irritable slow to warm up: need to adjust gradually to change. Sigmund freud: freud was the founder of psychoanalytic movement in psychology. Preconscious mind information is available but not currently conscious. Conscious mind aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions. Unconscious mind thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness (can be revealed in dreams and freudian slips of the tongue). Psychoanalysis freud"s term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it. Neo-freudians followers of freud who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis. Personal unconscious jung"s name for the unconscious mind as described by freud.