PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Overeating, Extraversion And Introversion, Electra Complex
Document Summary
Patterns of psychology characteristics that differentiates us from others and leads us to act consistently across situations. The structure of the mind: the mind is divided into 3 parts. Contains memories and urges that are forbidden or dangerous-anxiety and dark thoughts. Kept from consciousness, but can still cause problems. Freud says one way of discovering the unconscious mind is by looking at your dreams (dream analysis) Manifest content: the surface info you can remember. Freud is more concerned with the latent content; the deeper meaning of the dream. Unconscious: thoughts, feelings, urges and other info that is too difficult to bring to conscious awareness. Id: irrational, illogical, impulsive dimension of personality (devil) Ego: rational, rationally planful, mediating dimension of personality. Different parts of the personal are in constant conflict. Defense mechanisms ward off the resulting anxiety from this conflict. Denial: refusal to believe info that leads to anxiety. Displacement: shift aggressive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening target.
