PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Erik Erikson, Anna Freud, Penis Envy

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Personality research: personality refers to enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation, and behavior that are expressed in different circumstances, the aim of personality research is to. Psychodynamic views of personality: freud invoked a role of unconscious processes in the control of behavior. Based on his observations of clients: topographical model: argued for 3 levels of consciousness. Conflict occurs between the different aspects of consciousness. Id, ego, and superego: freud"s developmental model. Libido refers to pleasure-seeking and sensuality as well as desire for intercourse. Fixed progression of change from stage to stage. Notion of fixation at a particular libidinal stage: freud"s psychosexual stages. Ego defense mechanisms: defense mechanisms are unconscious mental processes that protect the conscious person from anxiety. Projection: personal attributes their own unacceptable impulses to others. Putting onto somebody what you project on yourself. Reaction formation: person converts an unacceptable impulse into the opposite impulse. Little boy liking girl, mean 2 her :(