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Personality 3/18/08
Chapter 14

 A person’s characteristic patterns of _behaving_______ _thinking__________ and _feeling______________
 Attempts to explain __consistencies___________________- in an individual’s behavior across _time_________ & __situations_______________; basis to compare & contrast people
 “Who you are is what you do.” Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself…

Major Views of Personality
 Psychoanalytic view
 Personality is a result of unconscious conflicts w/in a person’s mind.
 Neo-Freudian view
 May vary widely by theorist, disagree w/ some of the basic principles of the psychoanalytic view put forth by Freud.
 Learning view
 Personality is a result of learning from environmental consequences (sometimes cognitive factors are added in)
 Humanistic view
 Personality is a result of striving towards growth & achievement)
 Trait view- Personality is determined by inborn traits.

Psychoanalytic Perspective
_Sigmund Freud_____________
 Physician; his work with _hysteric_____________- patients formed the basis for psychoanalysis
 First experimented with _Hypnosis______________- and then began having his patients __talk____________ through their problems.
– Oddly they began to get better…..
 Called this new type of therapy _talking therapy ____________ or the __talking cure________________
 Psychoanalysis: Freud’s theory, & his therapy for treating psychological disorders that involves procedures such as ___dream__________ analysis, hypnosis, & ___free association ___________________
 Psychoanalytic theory is criticized for not being testable using scientific methods
Freud’s Levels of...