PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sampling Bias, Penis Envy, Reaction Formation
25 Feb 2014
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Rationalization: take forbidden impulse i want mom , the unconscious ego fills the conscious ego with reasons for our behaviour that have nothing to do with the impulse, we are fooling ourselves, we fully believe the reason. Reaction formation: the unconscious ego fills the conscious ego with the opposite. Jan 23/14 dr. day, 2b03, c02, personality: applies to sexual and aggressive impulses, another ex. is anti-pornography critics, another example is excessive homophobia. 2: study done sampled men who were strongly homophobic and some who didn"t care and showed graphic images and recorded arousal. They found that the group that was most aroused were the ones who were strongly homophobic: freud argued that many cases of phobia involved reaction formation. People have phobias with things that they barely encounter. Snake phobia freud said they are guarding against undesirable impulse, using combination of displacement and reaction formation, which we have to undue.
