PSYC 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hermann Rorschach, Normative Social Influence, In-Group Favoritism
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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of child hood. In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Freud s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. According to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thought, wishes, feelings and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. The largely conscious, executive art of personality that, according to. Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality.
