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Back to category: Miscellaneous Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Stuff n Stuff Personality: relatively enduring behavioural characteristics and internal predispositions that describe how a person reacts to the environment Psychodynamic Perspectives (Freud, Jung, Adler) Freud Conflict, Anxiety and Defense -id, ego, and superego always in conflict with on another - such conflicts may produce anxiety that one becomes conscious of -the distress caused by the anxiety motivates people to rid themselves of the anxiety Humans use defense mechanisms that protect us from emotions such as anxiety and guilt -the defense mechanisms are unconscious Rationalization -reinterpretations of unacceptable behaviors in order to justify them Repression - distressing thoughts and feelings are compartmentalized in the unconscious - "motivated forgetting" Projection - attributing your own undesirable or unacceptable thoughts, motives, or feelings to another Displacement - diverting one’s emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original s... Posted by: Novelett Roberts Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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