PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unconscious Cognition, Phallic Stage, Genital Stage

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Darko Odic

Document Summary

Unconscious cognition aspects of our cognition that are automatic and that we have no awareness of. Unconscious cognition is a good thing: it removes the need for us to think about and evaluate every aspect of our perceptions, actions, etc. Unconscious cognition is richer than we think: actively thinks, learns, feels, and wants, just like conscious cognition. Unconscious cognition drives all behaviour: most of what we are aware of is just a byproduct of what happens in our unconscious. Psychosexual stages developmental stages that form personality. Electra complex: because the id deeply desires a penis (a state called. Penis envy ), girls become strongly attracted to their father and very angry at their mother, who they see as weak for lacking a penis. Defense mechanisms unconscious ways of coping that reduce anxiety and allow the ego to control inappropriate impulses from the id or shaming from the superego.