PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Abraham Maslow, Social Learning Theory, Karen Horney

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

Document Summary

Never-ending battle between two irrational forces (the id and the superego) with the mediator (the ego) in the middle. Much of this con ict is unconscious, but when it becomes serious, an alarm goes off. When anxiety or guilt alarm rings, ego defends itself through unconscious effects referred that tend to deny or distort reality. Effect of defence mechanisms is to reduce anxiety or guilt. Motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories or impulses. Act of returning psychologically to a younger, and typically simpler and safer, age. Transformation of an anxiety-provoking emotion into its opposite. Unconscious attribution of our negative characteristics to others. Directing an impulse from a socially unacceptable target onto a safer and more socially acceptable one. Providing a reasonable-sounding explanation for unreasonable behaviours or failures. Avoiding emotions associated with anxiety-provoking experiences by focusing on abstract and impersonal thoughts. Process of adopting characteristics of people we nd threatening. Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired goal.