PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sigmund Freud, Optical Illusion, Unconscious Mind
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Psychophysics: how physical stimuli are transferred from sight to thought. Optical illusions: discrepancy between visual appearance and physical reality. M ller-lyer experiment/illusion (illusion due to misleading depth ques) Method of constant stimuli: showing different intensities (line lengths. One of the first to emphasize unconscious mind. Emphasis on childhood that affects further development and growth (ex. Freud though that the psyche was made up of 3 components: the id, super-ego and ego. It is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives. Can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do (ex. guilt from stealing candy bar) Organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego. Regulating mechanism enabling you to delay gratifying immediate needs and function effectivity in the real world. We develop strategies (ego-defensive mechanism) to avoid anxiety ice-berg model id under the level of conscious awareness/unconscious desires ego-defensive mechanisms.
