01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Reality Principle, Gender Role, Humanistic Psychology

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

Document Summary

The most primitive structure of the mind, the activities of which occur at the. The structure of the mind that uses the reality principle to manipulate. Psychoanalytic theories: id, ego, and superego: the structural model of the mind. Id: unconscious level and are guided by the pleasure principle. Ego: situations, plan for the future, solve problems, and make decisions go: ego uses the reality principle to negotiate between the id and the environment. The structure of the mind that guides behavior to follow the rules of society, parents, or other authority figures. Freud proposed the existence of defense mechanisms, which keeps these thoughts and feelings banished in the unconscious. Most of the time, these mechanisms function as healthy ways to suppress (hold back, curb) anxiety: rationalization - beneficial or appropriate. Rationalization offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one"s actions: repression . Motivated forgetting of unacceptable thoughts and feelings.