Personality Psychology: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory

10: Personality Personality Psychology has two theories. The first from Sigmund Freud. His Psychoanalytic theory suggests that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influences personality, while the Humanistic idea focused on growth and self-fulfillment. Personality Researchers study the complexities of the personalities: biological roots and interaction between people. Along with those roots, they study bias, self-esteem and cultural influence. Freud’s point of view consisted of the idea that your emotional disorders originate from unconscious dynamics. He analyzed this through free association and dreams. His theory was called Psychoanalysis. Freud thought people defended themselves against anxiety by allowing their

They began using projective test to attempt to assess personality to reveal unconsciousness. Psychology’s false consensus effect is extremely similar to Freud's projection and reaction formation.

12: Abnormal Psychology

“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal”-William James. Waldo Emerson spoke of how the sun shines and we feel its warmth but never think to wonder why, and surprisingly when it comes to evil, pain, hunger, even unusual people, we grow more than fascinated, if not infatuated with the subject. Sometimes, we find ourselves acting as disturbed people do. Why do we do this? It could possibly be that we, too, feel this way to a lesser extent. We may have felt, through family and friends, pain that could have brought some of us to a psychological disorder like: feeling unworthy

Human connections are more powerful than most people believe. Attitudes are influenced when others are minimal. Social facilitation says that the presence of either observer could arouse another person. Rules for socially accepted behaviors is called cultural norms, but with every culture come a different cultural norm. Stereotypes and predispositions are known as Prejudice. Different kinds of inequalities may trigger ingroup bias, which is a form of prejudice. What are cognitive roots of prejudice? Some examples of cognitive roots of prejudice are when social groups that are a favorite rationalize their higher status, as if superior to the other group; this is called just-world phenomena. There is also the other-race effect which is the point when someone of their own race recognizes another of the same race and gravitates towards them instead of someone of another