..:: 546. The One With Psychology ::..

just my exam timetable... in case i forgot the date or timing.

15 nov - 1300 - hp101 - introduction to psychology
21 nov - 0900 - bh223 - strategic hr and consulting
26 nov - 1300 - hp102 - fundamentals of social science research
30 nov - 0900 - bh223 - compensation and benefits

as i am revising, i am now trying to remember what i have learnt... for personality.

freud's psychosexual theory of personality developments... freud thinks that the way a person finds pleasure or is prevented from satisfying urges for pleasure at each stage affects personality.

in oral stage which lasts from birth to 1.5 yo. it is id dominated. id is part of personality present at birth and completely unconscious. libido - instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of society standards of behavior. id is based on pleasure principle whereby there is desire for immediate gratification of needs without regard for consequences. in other words, at the stage when you want milk, you will cry hell, not afraid that your parents will hit you.

fixation at this stage (meaning when a baby is stopped from weaning - breastfeeding), the baby may either be overdeveloped or under underdeveloped. it will affect the ability to form interpersonal attachment... being optimistic or pestimistic... and tendency to be active and take charge or be passive.

then 2nd stage is the anal stage where the 'pleasure' comes from being able to excrete 'you-know-what'. this stage will have 2 types of personality: anal expulsive personalities - where a person is messy, destructive, hostile. anal retentive personalities - neat, fussy, stubborn. the fixation comes from the toilet training. too strict, the child might be defiant and chooses to excrete anywhere (in extreme case la). this gives rise to the sense of competence and control in the child as part of personality development

3rd stage is confusing. the phallic stage where oedipus complex occurs. it is when a child develops sexual attraction for opposite-sex parent and jealousy for same-sex parent (sounds sick but its true, when someone show you so much love... and remember the superego has yet to develop - which is the moral center for a person)

as the child grows, the child feels the anxiety as it is not right. so to reduce the anxiety, the child develops defence mechanism - identification. follow and be like the same-sex parent. this is the stage where boys are close to their fathers and girls to their mothers. superego develops. fixation at this stage will lead to immature sexual attitudes and when grow up will exhibit promiscuous sexual behavor and vanity. vanity is seen as a cover-up for feelings of self worth arising from not being able to resolve the complex. there will also be a lack of moral sexual behavior from failure of identification and inadequate superego formation.

in latency stage, around primary school age, sexual feelings are repressed while children develops in other areas. that is where boys will hang out with boys and vice versa. this stage will affect the ability to get along with others...

in last stage, genital stage, from teens to adults... sexual feelings are brought to consciousness... fixation will cause immature love or indiscriminate hate. uncontrollable work (workaholic) or inability to work are some of the attitudes that will be developed.

phew... so long. i guess it will be ???? for a lot of people. and it is just one small part of personality, the psychoanalytic view ...

i still have to cover behaviorist, humanistic and trait theories.