PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Erik Erikson, Penis Envy, Social Learning Theory

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Sherry Fukuzawa

Document Summary

Freud-topographical model: argued for 3 levels of consciousness. Fixed progression of change from stage to stage. Notion of fixation at a particular libidinal stage. Can"t be too early (development of ocdor other control disorders)or too late (anally repressive-sloppy, late ect) Parental identification, oedipus complex/electra complex (abilityto identify with parents), penis envy for girls. Not a good theorydifficult to study ego defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms are unconscious mental processes that protect the conscious person from anxiety. Had no conscious memory of sexual abuse as children. Projection: person attributes their own unacceptable impulses to others. We see behaviour in others that we have but don"t see fully in ourselves. Reaction formation: person converts an unacceptable impulse into the opposite impulse. Crushes on girlteases her insteadexpresses in the opposite way. Pushing against gay marriage-but the ppl who pushes the hardest usually end up in a sex scandal. Sublimation: person converts an unacceptable impulse into a socially acceptable activity.