PSYC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Iceberg, Unconscious Mind, Preconscious

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2010
• Professor: Seth A Gitter

Document Summary

Unconscious mind: current stream of consciousness (current processing, information and processes (outside of awareness), easily brought into, memories, impulses, thoughts, process; very difficult to retrieve, explicitly retrieved if at all Ego: exists across all 3 areas of consciousness. Operates on morality principle what society expects of you: mediates conflicts between selfish impulses and selfless understanding. Conflicts between id and superego lead to defense mechanisms: prompted by unpleasant unconscious thoughts and desires. Repression: suppressing unwanted desires/memories, stamps into unconscious to the point where the memory and even its suppression cannot be accessed. Not typically fully forgetting but they do not concern themselves with it. Reaction formation: reacting against ones own unsatisfied impulses, dealing with conflict by not allowing impulse to effect behavior. Your impulse to get a donut is raised. Id and superego in conflict -> flight response. If you see someone with a donut you might throw it out of their hand and reprimand them.