PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thematic Apperception Test, Personality Test, Psychoanalysis

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

Document Summary

Introduction to personality and psychodynamic theories. Is individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Posit that behavior is dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious mind. Focus on inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment. Observed patients whose disorders had no clear physical explanations. Concluded their problems reflected unacceptable thoughts and feelings, hidden away in the unconscious mind. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, . Id: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. Psychologists have used an iceberg image to illustrate freud"s idea that the mind. Note that the id is totally unconscious, but ego and superego operate both.