PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Thematic Apperception Test, Puberty, Genital Stage

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Definition: attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Current thoughts at a given moment: preconscious. Contains memories not in consciousness but can be brought into consciousness: unconscious. Below the preconscious, bulk of the human mind. Thoughts, desires, impulses for which we are unaware. Might have once been conscious but now repressed. Personality consists of three parts: id (unconscious) All of our primitive thoughts, urges, needs, desires. Pleasure principle: demands immediate gratification of cost: ego (conscious) Holds id in check until conditions are right for gratification. Reality principle: takes external environment into account to direct behavior/maximize pleasure. Resolves conflict of id and superego: superego (preconscious/conscious) Also seeks to control the id, but focuses is on morality. Will only gratify impulses if morally correct, not just safe. Conscience expects good at all times. Early childhood has impact on unconscious and stays around forever. 5 stages of psychosexual development: oral 2. Symptoms of conflict: way too independent or dependent.