PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ego Ideal, Collective Unconscious, Defence Mechanisms

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Greer

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Criticism: small sample size, limited, not testable, subjective method of data collection, dated views about women. Contributions: focus on importance of early development, noted potential importance of unconscious experiences and in uence of sexuality on human behaviour. 1: freudian theory: psychic determinism, instincts, level of consciousness. 2. reaction-formation: transportation of anxiety-provoking emotion into its opposite. 3: projection: unconscious attribution or our own negative characteristics on others, displacement: directing a socially unacceptable impulse into an acceptable one rationalization: making reasonable explanations for something unreasonable. 6. intellectualization: avoiding emotions associated with anxiety and focusing on. 7. abstract impersonal thought identi cation with aggressor: adopting characteristics of people we nd. Xation occurred is essential latency: sexual interests are suppressed: anal: young child (18 months-3 years) enjoys pooping and control of it, potty training, phallic: 4-5 year old, children enjoy playing with their genital parts. Social cognitive perspective: skinner: behaviour is distinctive because of different histories of reinforcements and.