PSYC 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Penis Envy, Anal Retentiveness, Phallic Stage
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Skip: social cognitive theories & the self (pp. 594-605) But you need to know table 14. 4 except for last row. This approach was created by sigmund freud. Human behavior is largely instinctual, irrational and unconscious. The id functions entirely in the unconscious. The id operates on the pleasure principle. The ego is the rational component of personality that makes decisions. The ego operates on the reality principle. The superego is the moral part of personality that tells us what we should and shouldn"t do. The superego strives for moral perfection rather than pure pleasure. (figure 14. 1,p. 573) Personality development moves through a series of five stages: oral stage. Conflict: stop breast feeding, really traumatic experience. If it does not go well, they can become orally fixated later on, for example they might smoke: anal stage. Some children become anal retentive because they don"t like changing from a diaper to a toilet could lead to ocd later on in life: phallic stage.
