PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bsc Young Boys, Conscientiousness, Phallic Stage

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Erica Refling

Document Summary

What is personality: personality is a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking. Relatively stable time across situations and over time. His work was developed when treating patients. Believed unconscious mind is the most powerful mind in determining our personality. Id develops in infancy it is completely unconscious home of impulse and desire purpose is to seek pleasure and gratification. Ego develops a little later thinking and planning operates on the reality principle somewhat unconscious, it is conscious though. Superego develops the latest out of the 3 think of it as your conscious (what is right and what is wrong) Mainly driven by id: someone impulsive, pleasure seeking. Mainly driven by superego: overly controlling person. Mainly driven by ego: most psychological healthy of balanced person according to freud, regulate between impulse and control: defense mechanisms. Involve denying or distorting reality in some way.