PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mania, Startle Response, Hypomania
Document Summary
At the end of this chapter you should be able to: May be completely hidden from our own view/comprehension. Troubling memories at the foundation of the symptoms. Hypnosis at first; freud abandoned early and used free association. Free association: a way at getting at thoughts that were typically repressed . Freud"s assumption: ideas and thoughts are associated with each other. Therefore eventually you will say something associated with the forgotten or repressed memory. Anxiety arises: we worry about the consequences of remembering. Freud"s underlying belief: when conflict was revealed, and when memories were uncovered, neurotic and hysterical symptoms would subside. Id: all other aspects of personality emerge from this basic, primitive, pleasure seeking part of our personality. Ego: deals with reality and its demands; copes with demands from id and . Superego: society"s rules and parents" rules, internalized and imposed on the ego. Interplay of the three structures and the three levels of processing: the dynamics of this theory.
