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Personality
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What is Personality?
Personality
an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
four basic perspectives
Psychoanalytic
Trait
Humanistic
Social-cognitive
Psychoanalysis
technique of treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality sought to explain what he observed during psychoanalysis
Personality Structure
a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy
strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy
strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
Defense Mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms
the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Repression
the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness