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Chapter 12: Personality
Course: General Psychology (PSYC 10213)
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University: Texas Christian University
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What is personality
apattern of enduring distinctive thoughts
emotions or behaviors that characterize an
individual's adaptation to the world
psychodynamic perspectives
theoretical personality is primarily unconscious
understanding involves exploringsymbolicmeanings
Of behavior aunconscious mind
early childhoodexperiences shape personality
Freud's psychoanalytic theory
Freud apsychoanalysis
sell instinct libido
death instinctHhanatos
Hustltipanysical symptoms wno physical cause
overdetermined multipleunconscious causes
personality structure
ID pleasure
Ego demands of reality
superego internalized conscious
Defense mechanisms
conflict between IDego superego results in anxiety
reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
not necessarily unhealthy
Repression push unacceptable impulses out of
awareness forget the unacceptable
foundation for all other defense mechanism
other mechanisms
Denial disbelieve present
reality
Rationalization claim
different motives
Displacement shift feelings
to new Ob elt
sublimation transform
vile to Val Uab
projection attribute own
fault's to others
Reaction Formation convert
to opposite emotion
Regression revert to earlier safer period
how you respond 4use these mechanisms is
what makes you uniquely you
psychosexual stages
oral stage O18 Months