PSYB10H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Notes.docx
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Chapter 2: classical theories of social and personality development. We are driven by motives and conflicts of which we are largely unaware and that our personalities are shaped by early life experiences. Psychosexual theory: freud"s theory that states that maturation of the sex instinct underlies stages of personality development and that how parents manage children"s instinctual impulses will determine the traits children come to display. Freud viewed the newborn as a seething cauldron an inherently selfish creature who is relentlessly driven by two kinds of instincts that he called eros and thanatos. Instinct: an inborn biological force that motivates a particular response or class of responses. Eros: freud"s name for instincts such as respiration, hunger, and sex that help the individual to survive. Thanatos: freud"s name for inborn, self-destructive instincts that were said to characterize all human beings. Unconscious motives: freud"s term for feelings, experiences, and conflicts that influence a person"s thinking and behaviour but lie outside the person"s awareness.
