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Personality
Personality
Understanding oneself entails developing an understanding of one’s
personality.
Mostly adjectives that describe how people act, think, perceive &
feel.
Three levels of generality
3 interlocking parts
Id- most primitive, biological based urges
- eat, drink, eliminate & sexual stimulation
- the energy that underlies these urges is libido
- operates on the pleasure principle
- without regard to rules, realities of life
Fixation characterized by
Messiness and disorder
Compulsiveness, over conformity
Phallic Stage- (3-5 years)
Dollard and Miller gave the basic idea that social behavior and
individual behavior can be explained by means of basic learning
principles