PSY - P 102 1st Edition Lecture 6Outline of Last Lecture I. What is PersonalityOutline of Current Lecture II. What is Personality?III. Psychoanalytic Perspective IV. Structure of Personality Current Lecture1. What is Personality?- Personalityo Individual’s unique and consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving- Personality theory o Theory that tries to explain similarities and differences in patterns of feeling and behavior ‘whole person’- 4 basic perspectiveso Psychoanalytic Perspective Focuses on unconscious processes and influence of early childhood experienceso Humanistic Perspective Optimistic look at human nature, emphasize a person’s unique potentialo Social Cognitive Perspective Focuses on learning and cognitive processes, goal setting and self regulat8iono Trait Perspective Focus on description of personality differences among individuals These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.2. Psychoanalytic Perspective - Freud’s psychoanalysis stresses the importance of unconscious forces, sexual and aggressive forces and early childhood experiences - Psychological Forces = 3 Levels of Awarenesso Conscious Thoughts, feelings and sensation that you are aware of o Preconscious Information that you’re not actually aware of, but can bring to conscious o Unconscious Thoughts, feelings and drives that are below level of conscious awareness- Manifest content: Surface images- Latent content: Unconscious meaning disguised in dream symbols 3. Structure of Personality 1. Ido Most primitive part, completely unconscious o Seeks to immediate satisfaction of instinct drives o Ruled by pleasure principle o 2 conflicting instinctual drivesi. Eros: Life Instinct 1. Biological urges, physical comfort2. Libido = Sexual energy or motivationii. Thanatos: Death Instinct 1. Destructive energy2. Egoo Partly conscious part of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior o Most in touch with demands of external world o Reality Principle i. Capacity to postpone gratification until appropriate timeo Repress = Remove from conscious awareness 3. Superegoo Partly conscious, self-evaluative and moralistic part of personality o Formed through internalization of parental and society
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