PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Delayed Gratification, Reflex, Video Lesson
24 Jan 2020
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Thoughts that are currently in your mind. Deals with only a tiny percentage of all the information that is stored in your mind: preconscious. Unconscious material that"s brought forward to be looked over: unconscious. Impulses, fantasies, things that reside out of awareness. The vast majority of our thoughts, and the most important in the psychoanalytic theory. Difficult to deliberately bring into conscious without outside forces. Immediate gratification: reflex action- no consideration for other people"s needs. (reaching for what you want, wish fulfilment- if the desired wish isn"t available, the id will imagine what it wants for temporary satisfaction (dreams) Primary process- pleasure principle, wish fulfilment, reflex action. The id is what we have at birth. Reality principle actions designed to satisfy the id, however take the reality of the situation into consideration. Reality testing- learned through the environment we are brought up in. Test reality to see if its ok to satisfy particular impulses.
