PSYC 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Base Rate, Adobe Freehand, Social Alienation

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3200
• Professor: Erdodi

Document Summary

Personality: enduring patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving: make sense of the behaviour and expressed feelings of others. Each person is internally consistent to some extent; we have coherent and stable traits and behaviour patterns that occur reliably. Each person is distinctive to some extent; there are behavioural differences among individuals. Sigmund freud (1856-1936: neurologist, specialized in hysteria treatment - believed root was the memories of traumatic experiences (w. Id: entirely unconscious; seat of all instinctual needs, incapable of logic. Pleasure principle: impulsion toward immediate satisfaction without regard for values or morality: ego: conscious self; mediate btwn the id and reality. Reality principle: seeking realistic and safe ways of discharging the instinctual tensions that come from the id: superego: ethical component of personality that starts to emerge in the first 5 years of life. Conscience, societal standards of right and wrong. Role of defence mechanisms: set of tools the ego uses to help mediate btwn id and superego.