PS101 Study Guide - Social Cognitive Theory, Oedipus Complex, Collective Unconscious
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Psychodynamic theories include all of the diverse theories descended from the work of freud focusing on unconscious mental forces. By focusing on the influences of early childhood experiences on unconscious motives and conflicts and on the methods people use to copes with their sexual aggressive urges, psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain personality and psychological disorders. Personality is divided into three components: to the please principles (reservoir for psychic energy) Id: primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according. Houses the raw biological urges (sleep, eat, poo: operates according to the pleasure principles: demands immediate gratification of its orders, engages in primary process thinking which is primitive, illogical irrational, fantasy operated. Mediates between the id, and the external social world with its. Ego: deciding making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle expectations and normal regarding suitable behavior.
