Personality Chapter 13

What is personality?↔Our characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting

Popular personality tests?↔(MBTI, Enneagram) often lack validity/reliability

What are classical perspectives?↔Psychodynamic/psychoanalytic, Neo-Freudian, Humanistic (People like Freud and Carl Jung)

What is psychoanalytic theory?↔Freud's theory that human behavior= consciousness+unconscious mind. Personality= conflict between impulse and restraint; id, ego, superego (many of his ideas debated on due to lack of research)

What did Freud believe about personality?↔That it developed in earliest years of life, when going through ‘psychosexual stages’. Unresolved conflict in a stage leads to fixation (which impacted personality)

What is the Id?↔Unconscious energy, focused on satisfying basic desires (survive, reproduce, and aggress) Seeks immediate gratification. I want, I need.... (The CHILD)

What is the Ego?↔Mostly concoius energy that seeks to satisfy the id’s impulses in realistic ways. Makes peace between the Id and Superego (The ADULT)

What is the Superego?↔Superego: Voice of our moral compass (conscience) Forces the ego to consider how we ought to behave. You cannot or must not. (The MATURED ADULT)

What part of Freud's theories is supported by research?↔Concept of unconcious (ex. implicit memories, priming, etc.). Most of it is not

What is some of Freud's terminology that persists in everyday life?↔Freudian slip, Oedipus complex, libido, dreams having meaning, etc.