PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Preconscious, Reality Principle, Long-Term Memory
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Environment impacts on you you respond. Consistency in people stable responses to environment. Differences product of what comes from without (environment) Add cognitive variables competencies, encoding strategies, beliefs and expectancies. Behaviourism environment personal/ cognitive factors (expectations, beliefs, self efficacy) behaviourism. Pros: based on rigorous research, insights into effects of learning and environmental factors. Cons: over dependence on animal research, fragmented view of personality, dehumanizing views. What people do and say are the tip of the iceberg. Motives and desires that lie buried beneath the surface. Dynamic because the forces are pitted against each other. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory: structure of personality. Super ego morality: levels of awareness. Freud"s theory was very controversial as he proposed the following processes: much is due to unconscious processes, sexuality is a primary drive, children have sexual feelings. Conscious: whatever you are aware of at any given moment. Preconscious: events out of awareness but that can be recalled (like long term memory)
