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1 Personality: an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting It’s what is consistent in our behavior from day to day, in spite of our situation. Give one characteristic of your personality.

2 Type A  Feel a sense of time pressure  Easily angered  Competitive  Ambitious  Work hard/play hard  Higher risk for heart disease  Easy going, relaxed  Seen as a spectrum, have characteristics of both or neither Type B

3 Psychoanalytical Perspective of Personality Based on unconscious drives and conflicts

4 Psychoanalytic Perspective  Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality development Influence of unconscious mental processes Importance of sexual and aggressive instincts Enduring consequences of early childhood experiences No behavior was ever accidental

5 Freudian slips "For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan, and I'm proud to have been his partner. We've had triumphs. We've made some mistakes. We've had some sex - - setbacks."

6 Levels of Awareness Conscious- things we are currently aware of Preconscious- thoughts/memories that could be voluntarily brought to your mind

7 Levels of Awareness Unconscious- Thoughts, feelings, motives are blocked from the conscious Not directly accessible

8 How did Freud tap into the unconscious?  Free Association Relax and speak whatever comes to mind ○ This is where the stereotypical couch/patient scene comes from Follow a mental trace back to childhood where the painful unconscious memories could be retrieved and released  Dreams Manifest content Latent content

9 According to Freud: Personality is the conflict between our aggressive pleasure seeking biological impulses and the social restraints against them Personality is our way of expressing these impulses without bringing guilt. 3 components of personality

10 Id  hidden animalistic wants & desires  impulsive, immature, irrational  works on the Pleasure Principle  avoids pain and receive instant gratification.

11 Ego  develops after the Id  Resides in the conscious & unconscious  Works on the Reality Principle  seeks to gratify the ids impulses in practical ways  It is what everyone sees as our personality.

12 Superego  Develops last at about the age of 5  It is our conscience (right vs. wrong)  To help guide the way you ought to behave


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