PSYC 102 Final: PSYC 102 Extra Book Notes Final.docx

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Toni Schmader

Document Summary

Personality structure, freud"s idea of the minds structure. Ego mostly conscious; make peace between the id and the superego. Regression: recreation to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated. Reaction formation: switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Projection: disguising one"s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. Rationalization: offering self-justifying explanations in place of ht real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one"s actions. Displacement: shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable less threatening object or person. Denial: refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities. Consider three specific ways in which individuals and environments interact: different people choose different environments, our personalities shape how we interpret and react to events, our personalities help create situations to which we react. Psychoanalytic (freud: emotional disorders spring from unconscious dynamics, such as unresolved sexual and childhood conflicts.