Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Unconscious Mind, Psychosexual Development, Personal Unconscious

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Components of identity, perceived internal cause, and perceive organization and structure contribute to one"s personality. Freud worked with jean charcot, who was dealing with conversion hysteria (paralysis and blindness appear suddenly without reason) Freud was convinced these symptoms were because of painful memories and feeling that were repressed; when patients were able to re-experience their painful memories, their symptoms vanished. Unconscious part of mind has a great influence on behaviour. Freud stated that instinctual drives generate psychic energy (powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct/indirect release) When ego confronts impulses from the id that are out of hand and uncontrollable, anxiety occurs and must be dealt with properly. Defence mechanisms deny or distort reality (ego prevents expression of anxiety-arousing impulses or expresses them in disguised forms)