Priscilla has recently found diaries from her family dating back multiple generations. She has noticed that there are similarities in their life events and in the way they thought about things that happened to them. She believes that it has to do with the fact that they all have the same inherited instincts that drive their behavior and that these instincts exist in all humans. Priscilla’s way of thinking is most in line with

Carl Jung's collective unconscious

Explanation:

Collective unconscious: In psychology, the term "collective unconscious" was introduced by a psychoanalyst named Carl Jung, and is also referred to as "object psyche". Collective unconscious represents the idea that a specific segment of an individual's deepest "unconscious mind" is being inherited genetically yet not shaped through his or her personal experiences.

In the question above, the given statement represents Carl Jung's collective unconscious.