PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The Conscious Mind, Unconscious Mind, Tachycardia
14 Apr 2013
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Unconscious motivation: according to freud the human mind consists of three parts: The conscious mind: the part that contains all of the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that you are presently aware of. The preconscious mind: any piece of information that you are not presently thinking of, but that could easily be retrieved and made conscious, is found here. (memories and dreams) The unconscious mind: is the largest part of the human mind, which the conscious mind has no awareness. Those memories, thoughts, and feelings or urges are so troubling or even distasteful that being aware of them would make a person anxious. The id also operates with primary process thinking: thinking without logical rules of conscious thought or an anchor in reality. i. e. dreams and fantasies. When the id requires an external object or person, and they are not available, the id creates a mental image or fantasy of what they need to satisfy them.
