PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erogenous Zone, Anal Stage, Oral Stage

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Psyc 1010 lecture four biopsychological approach. Behavior or mental process: biological influences, psychological influences, socio-cultural influences. There are seven different perspectives in analyzing behavior: neuroscience. How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences: evolutionary. People engage in behaviors that promote the survival of the fittest: behavior genetics. How genes and our environment influence our individual differences: psychodynamic. Behavior that emerges from unconscious drive: behavioral. Behaviors and thinking vary across situations and cultures. Psychoanalytic perspective (specifically freud) psychodynamic perspective (derived from psychoanalytic approach: the psychoanalytic theory has a big impact on psychological aspects today, based on instincts. A mental energy that can be build up within us. Leads to aggressive and destructive acts to ourselves and others. Structures of personality: id: structure that contains the instinct. Based on the pleasure principal: ego: develops at about 13-15 months. Is in touch with reality and helps the id become satisfied in socially acceptable ways.