Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - The Conscious Mind, Unconscious Mind, Libido

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Personality: individual differences in traits and behaviour that are stable over time and consistent across situations. Behavioral perspectives (pavlov, skinner, bandura; p. 43-50) Freud was never trained as a psychologist, trained in medical science and specialization was neurology. Hysteria: unusual symptoms (but no physical basis) worked with hysteric people. E. g. , glove anesthesia (see photo, p. 452) lose feeling completely in hand. Distinction between conscious mind, unconscious mind, and preconscious mind. The conscious mind: everything we are aware of at a given moment plays a tiny role compared to unconscious mind. The (motivated) unconscious mind: wishes, desires, impulses that are beyond our conscious awareness: kept there because they are threatening or upsetting (unacceptable. By proving the unconscious (with free association) he could make the unconscious and conscious (and cure his patients) Probing the unconscious: a case of obsessive thinking. Obsessive thought (conscious): if i have sexual intercourse, my niece will die .