PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Unconscious Mind
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A person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Human behavior is the result of an interaction between the conscious and. Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feeling, and. Getting stuck at one of the psycholsexual stages. Adult who is passive and depend on others (just like a nursing. Tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality. All unconsciously used and based on repression. Pushing anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings and memories from consciousness. Verbal (cid:396)slips(cid:397) are the results of the unconscious seeping through. Revert back to an earlier psychosexual stage. We often repress sadness and act happily towards. Covering up your own (cid:396)threatening(cid:397) impulses by attributing them to others. Ex. (cid:396)are you cheating on me? (cid:397) )when they are the one cheating on their partnet) Directing sexual or aggressive behaviors towards another target. Ex. someone kicking a dog when they"re angry at. Providing self-justifying explanations in place of actual (cid:396)threatening(cid:397) unconscious reasons for behavior.
