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Chapter 10 Outline –

Personality – is an individual's unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and across situations.
1. Psychodynamic Theories – p 328 – see behavior as the product of psychological forces that interact within the individual often outside conscious awareness. (Frued)
- Frued traced it to sexual and aggressive urges; others, like Karen Horney, saw it as rooted in the individuals struggle to deal with dependency.
i. ALL psychodynamic theorists share the sense that unconscious processes primarily determine personality and can best be understood within the context of life-span development.

A. Sigmund Frued- best known and most influential of the psychodynamic theorists.

a. Unconscious – all ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware.
b. Psychoanalysis - theory of personality Freud developed, as......

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