PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Positive Illusions

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gwen Jenkins

Document Summary

Personality: the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. In unconscious, no direct contact with reality. Operates according to pleasure principle" (seeks immediate gratification or release) Functions to keep impulses of id in control. Psychic energy: generated by instinctual drives, this energy powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. The dynamics of personality involve a never-ending struggle between the id trying to discharge its instinctive energies and the opposing forces generated by the ego and superego. In the face of problems anxiety motivates the ego to deal with the problem. In some instances anxiety can be reduced through realistic coping behaviors. However, in some instances realistic strategies are ineffective and ego resorts to defense mechanisms that deny or distort reality. The three forms of defense mechanisms are:(any three component from the 8 components listed on table 14. 1) such as