PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ego Ideal, Freudian Slip, Counterfactual Thinking
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Transference- where our early love relationships for our parents get transferred to our future spouse. Psychic energy- freud believed that this fueled the functions of the mind including thinking, imagining and remembering. Concerned with survival of the person and concerned with physiological needs such as water and air. Freud believed that the most important life instincts is sex. Free association- the patient is relaxed and the therapist talks to them enabling them to say whatever comes to their mind. Dream analysis- freud believed that dreams were a road to the unconscious. Manifest content- people are able to describe what they saw in their dreams. Latent content- the hidden meaning of the dream. Psychologists now believe that people could have been primed before so it does not relate any innate desires. Symbolic behaviours- allows us to safely express or id impulses under the disguise or a harmless before. Word association method- used to identify the connections people make with words.
