PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Conscious Mind, Unconscious Mind, Richmond Theatre Fire
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Freudian/psychodynamic views: the unconscious parts of the self. Other perspectives we"ve already considered: genetics, behaviorism, social learning theory. These different perspectives explain what we have in common and ways in which we differ. Personality an individual"s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Modern ideas about the unconscious and other freudian concepts. These theories of human personality focus on the inner forces that interact to make us who we are. Behavior, as well as human emotions and personality, develop in a dynamic (interacting, changing) interplay between conscious and unconscious processes. He decided to explore how mental and physical symptoms could be caused by purely psychological factors. These ideas were definitely ahead of his time. He became aware that many powerful mental processes operate in the unconscious, without our awareness. His name for this theory and his therapeutic technique: psychoanalysis. Unconscious forces act to determine both personality and behavior. Personality = interplay between conscious and unconscious processes (definition according to psychoanalysists)
