CAS PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Defence Mechanisms, Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Dunn

Document Summary

Our identity is defined by the way we think, feel, and act responses. Perspectives on personality: psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive. Ego (reason and sanity): ceo of personality, direct contact with reality and functions, exist in at conscious level, operates according to reality principle: Testing reality to decide when and under what conditions the id can discharge its impulses satisfies its needs. Superego: moral arm of personality, develop since age of 4/5, carrying traditional values and ideals of family and society, these values are internalized by the child, development of superego can replace self-control with external control. Function: control instincts of id (sexual and aggressive impulses) Uperego replies (cid:862)do(cid:374)"t you dare, that is e(cid:448)il(cid:863) ego would response by waiting to find a more appropriate time for id to discharge. Personality reflects unconscious conflict between satisfying impulses (id) and societal. Impulse is repressed and shifted on to a more acceptable (weaker) target.