PS101 Lecture Notes - Conditionality, Existentialism, Conscientiousness
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Id: part of personality that contains inherited psychic energy, particularly sexual (libido) and aggressive impulses, contains motives to avoid pain and obtain pleasure, sense of child. Ego: part of personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self control, large chunk unconscious, works continuously to control id, referee between the needs of instinct and demands of society. Superego: the part of personality that represents conscience, morality, and social standards, nags and acts as a parent of sorts. Repression: the selective, involuntary pushing of threatening or upsetting information into the unconscious. Projection: a person"s unacceptable or threatening feelings being repressed and then attributed to someone else. Displacement: when people direct their emotions (especially anger) toward things, animals, or other people that are not the real object of their feelings, called sublimation when serves a higher cultural or social purpose. Reaction formation: when a feeling that produces unconscious anxiety is transformed into its opposite in consciousness.