PS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Hans Eysenck, Carl Jung
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Freud believed that personality forms as a struggle b/w primal needs and social or moral restraints. Structure of personality: to freud, the mind is like an iceberg. Upper most part conscious mind thoughts and feelings we are aware of @ any given moment. Below surface preconscious mind thoughts, memories, and ideas that can be easily brought into conscious mind if attended to. Deepest level unconscious mind: unaware of content and cannot become aware of it except under special circumstances, id (instinctual drives) Basic instinctual needs and desires, such as those related to eat, sleeping, sex, or comfort. Freud believed that most basic impulses have sexual impulses libido. Often seen as immature and childlike (due to simple nature and its urgent demand for satisfaction) As kids grow older, they begin to learn their id impulses cannot always be satisfied. In charge of determining which impulses are acceptable to express openly and which are unacceptable.
