01:830:101 Chapter Notes -The Emotions, Takers, Roy Baumeister

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: D'arville

Document Summary

Module 40: psychodynamic theories: personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting, psychodynamic theories importance of childhood experiences. : view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the: sigmund freud, psychoanalysis. : unconscious psychic energy constantly strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress. Operates on the pleasure principle: it seeks immediate gratification: ego. : as ego develops, the young child responds to the real world. The ego, operating on the reality principle, seeks to gratify the id"s impulses in realistic ways that will bring long-term pleasure: superego. : the voice of our moral compass that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal. Strives for perfection, judging actions and producing positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt. Because the superego"s demands often oppose the id"s, the ego struggles to reconcile the two.