PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle, Toilet Training
20 Jan 2016
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Module 13 notes: psychics are really good at assessing personality, personality- individual"s distinct and relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, feelings, motives, and behavior, psychoanalysis. Personality is largely shaped by forces that act in a person"s unconscious. Iceberg example: ego is floating about the surface in our conscious mind, superego and id are below the surface in our unconscious mind. The id: the most primitive form of personality, present at birth, holds out instincts, biological drives, operates according to the pleasure cycle. The superego: moral aspects of personality, our ideals rather than the reality, stores parental authority. Children have to satisfy the id and behave. Defense mechanisms: repression- the thought is prevented from entering our consciousness, denial, anxiety filled vents are barred from awareness, projection- the telling of an anxiety provoked though to another person. Video 2- personality 2: the cognitive social-learning approach. Focuses on social learning, acquired cognitive factors, personal situation interaction.
