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| is an individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. |
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| what is a personality theory |
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| theory that attempts to describe and explain similarities and differences in people’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior. |
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| personality theory: psychoanalytic perspective |
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| emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes and the influence of early childhood experience. |
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| personality theory: humanistic |
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| optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person’s unique potential. |
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| personality theory: social cognitive perspective |
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| emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation. |
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| personality theory: trait perspective |
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| emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals. |
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| Sigmund Frued, psychoanalysis |
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| unconscious, sexual, aggressive instinctual drives, and the effects of childhood experience on later personality developemtn |
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| frued's notable publications |
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| freud's three levels of consciousness |
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| unconscious, preconscious, conscious **bulk of thought emerges from unconscious (picture iceburg) |
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| freud's psychoanalytic three structures of personality |
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| most primitive, entirely enconscious, present at birth. immune to logic, values, morality, danger, and demands of outside world |
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| freud and pleasure principle |
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| freud and reality principle |
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| the psychosexual stages of development |
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| personality theories of neo-Freudians Carl Jung, Karen Horney, and Alfred Adler, |
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