Pyschology 1003B: Chapter 14-17

Question 1

How is personality constructed?

Answer 1

• Personality has 3 characteristics:
  => Components of Identity
  => pierced internal cause
  => perceived organization and structure

Question 2

What does personality mean?

Answer 2

• The distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, acting that categorises a person’s responses to life situations, this is derived by consistency and individuality.

Question 3

What is the Psychodynamic theory?

Answer 3

• Freud suggests that personality is like an energy system.
• People have instincts and the instinctual drives motivates psychic energy