PSYB01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Defence Mechanisms, Reality Principle, Passive-Aggressive Behavior
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Personality: two fundamental features; first, each person is consistent to some extent and second each person is distinctive to some extent. The concept of personality is used to make sense out of the behaviour and expressed feelings of others. Id: is entirely unconscious and can be understood through dreams and anxiety. Freud concludes that it is our instinctual needs such as food, water, sexual gratification, and avoidance of pain. the id has only one purpose, to obtain immediate satisfaction. Pleasure principle: is the impulsion towards immediate satisfaction without regards for value, good or evil, or morality and has no logic. Ego: is the conscious self which mediates between id"s blind desires and the logic of the external world. Reality principle: realistic and safe way of preforming the instinctual needs of the id. Super ego: emerges in the first 5 years of life; it compromises our societal standards of right and wrong that are taught to us by out parents.
