PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tantrum, Extraversion And Introversion, 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. 4 topics central to psychoanalytic theory: levels of consciousness, structure of personality, psych-sexual stages of development, anxiety and the defense mechanism. 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. Ex: the urge to sleep with your parent of the opposite sex. Personality consists of 3 parts: id (unconscious) All of our primitive thoughts, urges, needs, desires. Pleasure principle: demands immediate gratification: ego (conscious) Holds id in check until conditions are right for gratification. Reality principle: takes eternal environments to account to direct behavior/maximize pleasure. Resolves conflict of id and superego: superego (pre-conscious; conscious) Also seeks to control the id, but focus is on morality. Will only gratify impulses if morally correct not just safe.