Lecture 19: Personality - Understanding the Unseen Aspects of Human Behavior, Study notes of Psychology

Download Lecture 19: Personality - Understanding the Unseen Aspects of Human Behavior and more Study notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Lecture 19: Personality That which cannot be seen, touched, or directly measured 4/26/04 I. How do we get to know a person a. What do we rely on in making impressions? b. How accurate are our impressions i. E.g. rating the instructor 1. What other information would help form an accurate impression 2. Do impressions matter? II. Impression Formation (Kelly, 1950) a. Warm vs. Cold study i. Differences in rating ii. Differences in behavior III. Approaches to Personality a. Freud/ Psychoanalysis i. 2 main points: ii. Freud’s background (physiologically vs. psychologically caused illnesses) iii. Freud’s Methods 1. Free Association to retrieve unconscious needs and wishes a. Dreams, jokes, parapraxes, etc. iv. Structure of Personality 1. Id 2. Ego 3. Superego v. Psychosexual Stages