PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Erogenous Zone, Puberty, Behaviorism
13 Dec 2016
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Personality
● Personality- an individual’s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors,
that persist over time and across situations
● Freud theorized that personality changes based on circumstances and experiences
○ Interplay between conscious thoughts and unconscious processes
○ Many powerful mental processes operate in the unconscious
○ Grew into psychoanalysis- therapeutic technique which uses the theory of the
structure of human personality and its development
■ Free Association- encouraged patient to speak whatever comes to
mind ⇒ therapist traces flow of thoughts into past and unconscious
■ Projective tests- structured, systematic exposure to a standardized set of
ambiguous prompts designed to reveal inner dynamics
● Low reliability and low validity
● Freudian Theory
○ Personality develops from efforts of ego to resolve tension between our id and
superego
■ Ego- rational self
■ Id- based on biological drives
● Focused on needs of erogenous zones
■ Superego- society’s rules and constraints
○ Born with id, ego develops as a toddler, superego begins development at age 4 or
5
○ Freud’s Psychosexual Phases
■ Oral Phase- pleasure centers on the mouth (sucking, biting, chewing)
● 0-18 months old
■ Anal Phase- pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; copning
with demands for control
● 18-36 months old
■ Phallic Phase- pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous
sexual feelings
● 3-6 years old
■ Latency Phase- a phase of dormant sexual feelings
● Age 6-beginning of puberty
■ Genital Phase- maturation of sexual interests
● Puberty through adulthood
○ Defense Mechanisms
■ Oedipus/Electra Complex- coping with sexual desires towards parent
⇒ view other parent as a competitor and leads to tension
■ Regression- retreating to more infantile psychosexual phase to cope
● Example: sucking on thumb on the way to the first day of school
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Document Summary
Personality- an individual"s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, that persist over time and across situations. Freud theorized that personality changes based on circumstances and experiences. Interplay between conscious thoughts and unconscious processes. Many powerful mental processes operate in the unconscious. Grew into psychoanalysis- therapeutic technique which uses the theory of the structure of human personality and its development. Free association- encouraged patient to speak whatever comes to mind therapist traces flow of thoughts into past and unconscious. Projective tests- structured, systematic exposure to a standardized set of ambiguous prompts designed to reveal inner dynamics. Personality develops from efforts of ego to resolve tension between our id and superego. Born with id, ego develops as a toddler, superego begins development at age 4 or. Oral phase- pleasure centers on the mouth (sucking, biting, chewing) Anal phase- pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; copning with demands for control.
