PSY 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY 3100
• Professor: Olatunji Olubunmi(bunmi)

Document Summary

Superego - moral standards of parents and society. Secondary process, id comes into contact with reality. Unconscious strategies employed by the ego that transform, distort, or deny reality and reduce anxiety. Displacement: transfer emotion to others reaction formation: taking up the opposite feeling sublimation: transformation of urges to acceptable forms. Psycho sexual stages: as the twig is bent, so grows the tree . Oral stage first 18 months: driven by pleasure principle. 1. 5-3 yrs: toilet training (ego reconciles id) 3-6 yrs: oedipus and electra complex (superego) 6 yrs-puberty: repression of sexuality - intellectual development. Dominated psychology and psychiatry for more than half a century. The revisionist: reduced emphasis on sex (libido) as primary motivator of behavior, move from sexualized fantasies about social relationships to real ones, criticism of a fixed personality in childhood: emergence of lifespan perspective toward self-actualization. There is minimal evidence from well-conducted scientific studies that humanistic. Therapist conveys empathy, genuine, and unconditional positive regard.