Personality Development

Levels of Consciousness/ Awareness

• Conscious

Sensations and expriences that we are aware of.

• Unconscious

Invisible surface Home of instincts that influence our behaviour.

• Pre-Conscious

Thoughts and memories we are not consciously aware of.

Structure of Personality

• Id

It is the most primitive part of the human mind, Childlike thinking.

• Ego

Rational Aspect. Responsible for controlling the instincts.

• Superego

Moral Aspect. Our personal ideas of correctness.

Psychosexual Stages of Development

• Oral

Birth

• Anal

Toilet training interferes with gratification recieved from defecation.

• Phallic

Bro what 💀
Also superego development.

• Latency

Make friends of same sex.

• Genital

Make friends of opposite sex.

Alfred Adler - Individual Psychology

Birth order is a big factor.

• Firstborn

• Middleborn

• Youngest

Eight basic assumptions concerning Human Nature

• Freedom - Determinism
• Rationality - Irrationality
• Holism - Elementalism
• Constitutanalism - Environmentalism
• Subjectivity - Objectivity
• Proactivity - reactivvity
• Homeostatis - Heterostatis
• Knowability - Unknowability

Big 5 traits

• Openness

• Conscientiousness

• Extraversion

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism