PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sigmund Freud, Neuroticism, Personality Development
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Psychoanalytic theory: sigmund freud, psychosexual theory, ego reality principle, attempts to satisfy the id"s desires, superego sense of conscience and morality, unconscious defense mechanisms. Id seeks pleasure, impulsive, bottom of iceberg. All unconscious: repression getting rid of bad memories on purpose, rationalization making explanations for your behavior, projection attributing negative qualities of yourself on others. Types of avoidance: neo-freudians adler, jung, horney had less emphasis on sexuality and more on social drives. Also more positive: criticisms, pseudoscientific, not falsifiable, ad hoc maneuvers twist answers to fit theory, overemphasis on sexual impulses. Behavioral and social learning: personality shaped by outside influences. Incongruence: person centered therapy unconditional positive regard, abraham maslow. Hierarchy of needs have to reach lower levels (survival) before. Biological approach differences in personality are based in part on physiological getting to next level. Introverts higher baseline levels (push away outside arousal) Extroverts lower baseline levels (crave outside arousal)
