1. Personality
Keywords: personality

2. Personality
An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Keywords: personality

3. Personality Theory
Attempts to describe and explain how people are similar, how they are different, and why every individual is unique

4. Psychoanalytic Approach
Developed by Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis is both an approach to therapy and a theory of personality
Emphasizes unconscious motivation – the main causes of behavior lie buried in the unconscious mind
Keywords: psychoanalytic approach, unconscious motivation
Graphics: picture of Freud pg. 420 Myers

6. Psychoanalytic Approach
Conscious – all things we are aware of at any given moment
Keywords: conscious, preconscious, unconscious
Graphics: fig pg. 475 Hockenbury

7. Psychoanalytic Approach
Preconscious – everything that can, with a little effort, be brought into consciousness
Graphics: fig pg. 475 Hockenbury

8. Psychoanalytic Approach
Unconscious – inaccessible warehouse of anxiety-producing thoughts and drives
Graphics: fig pg. 475 Hockenbury

9. Id: The Pleasure Principle
Pleasure principle—drive toward immediate gratification, most fundamental human motive
Sources of energy
Eros—life instinct, perpetuates life
Thanatos—death instinct, aggression, self-destructive actions
Libido—sexual energy or motivation

10. Ego: The Reality Principle
Reality principle—ability to postpone gratification in accordance with demands of reality
Ego—rational, organized, logical, mediator to demands of reality
Can repress desires that
cannot be met in an
acceptable manner

11. Superego: Conscience Internalization of societal and parental values
Partially unconscious
Can be harshly punitive using feelings of guilt

13. Unconscious mental processes employed by the ego to reduce anxiety
Defense Mechanisms
Keywords: defense mechanisms
Unconscious mental processes employed by the ego to reduce anxiety

14. Scenario
The rebel of CHS, Brandon, is dating Jasmine. Jasmine dumps Brandon and starts dating Drew, president of the psych club!

15. Repression
keeping anxiety-producing thoughts out of the conscious mind
When asked about Jasmine, Brandon may say “Who?, I have not thought about her for
ages.”
Keywords: repression, reaction formation

16. Reaction Formation replacing an unacceptable wish with its opposite
Brandon seems ecstatic that he is not with Jasmine

17. Displacement
When a drive directed to one activity by the id is redirected to a more acceptable activity by the ego
Brandon may take his anger our on his younger brother rather than Jasmine
Keywords: displacement, sublimation

18. Sublimation Displacement to activities that are valued by society
Brandon becomes preoccupied with working out rather than worrying about Jasmine

19. Projection
reducing anxiety by attributing unacceptable urges or feelings to someone else
Although Brandon is the needy one, he claims that his ex is being needy and clingy
Keywords: projection, rationalization, regression

20. Reasoning away anxiety-producing thoughts
Rationalization
Reasoning away anxiety-producing thoughts
Brandon thinks he will find a better girlfriend. “Jasmine was not all that anyway!”

21. Regression
retreating to a mode of behavior characteristic of an earlier stage of development
Brandon throws a tantrum because Jasmine doesn’t like him

22. Denial The failure to acknowledge or recognize
Brandon may act like he is still together with Jasmine. He may hang out by her locker and plan dates with her.