Psychology 2550A/B Lecture 8: Midterm 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Basic assumptions: unconscious mental determinism: two key assumptions, behavior is never accidental: it is psychologically determined by mental motivational causes (motivational determinism, these causes are mostly outside awareness or consciousness. )t became the focus of freud"s work: free association the patient, reclining on a couch, is encouraged to say, personality consists of three (cid:498)mental agencies(cid:499, what you"re born with essentially. )t"s instincts (cid:523)life and death instincts) act like drives are especially the biological instincts. Is the foundation from which the ego and superego later develop: seeks immediate gratification, the mental agency that contains everything inherited, motivational. Psychic structure: anatomy of the mind: id and survival, life or sexual instincts (eros) are drives that push pleasure, libido, generated by eros, = one"s finite energy. Primary process thinking attempts to satisfy needs via internal images or hallucinations: unconscious, basic impulses, sex and aggression, seeks immediate gratification regardless of consequences.