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Personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/08/2011

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Term
Personality
Definition
Individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.
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Sigmund Freud-explored unconscious
Definition
Faced patients whose disorders made no neurological sense.
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Free Association
Definition
-Relax
-Say Whatever comes to mind regardless of how embarrassing or trivial it may be.
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Freud's Theory of Personality
Definition
-Attributes thoughts and actions to UNCONSCIOUS motives and conflicts
-seeks to sxpose and interpret motives
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Personality Structures
Definition
-Freud believed personality is the result of our efforts to resolve conflict between biological impulses ( ID) and social restraint (super ego)
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Iceberg theory
Definition
The mind is like an iceberg.
(Mind is mostly hidden below the surface)
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