PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Monogamy
13 Sep 2016
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1) the biological drives with which the infant is born. 2) the earliest and most primitive personality structure: unconscious and operates with the goal of seeking pleasure. 2) the rational, logical, problem-solving component of personality. Superego: develops during the ages of 3 to 6, based on the child"s internalization (or adoption as his or her own) of the parents" attributes, beliefs, and standards. Emphasis on importance of early experience and emotional relationships. Recognition of the role of subjective experience and unconscious mental activity. Erikson: emphasis on the search for identity in adolescence. Primary sex characteristics: reproductive organs and external genitalia develop. Breasts, hips, facial hair, deep voice, armpit hair. Unifies the various selves into a consistent and comfortable sense. Social identity: form idea about how we differ from those around us. Intimacy: comfortable sense of self can form emotionally close loving relationships. Parent and peer relationships: adolescence is time of diminishing parental influence and growing peer influence.
