PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Genital Stage, Confirmation Bias
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Instincts: strong innate forces that provide all the energy in the psychic system. Freud"s original theory of instincts was influenced by darwin"s theory of evolution. In initial formulation, two instinct classes: self-preservation instincts, sexual instincts. In later formulations, freud collapsed self-preservation and sexual instincts into one, called life instinct (libido); added death instinct (thanatos). Although freud initially believed that the life instinct and death instinct worked to oppose one another, he later argued that they could combine in various ways. Unconscious motivation sometimes we don"t know why we do what we do: Human mind consists of 3 parts: conscious. Contains thoughts, feelings, and images about which you are presently aware: preconscious: Contains information you are not presently thinking about, but can be easily retrieved and made conscious: unconscious: Part of the mind holding thoughts and memories about which the person is unaware. Includes unacceptable sexual and aggressive urges, thoughts and feelings.
