Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unconditional Positive Regard, Unconscious Mind, Personal Unconscious

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

Their symptoms were related to painful emotions & feelings that seemed to have been repressed/pushed out of awareness. Their physical symptoms often disappeared/improved when they re-experience these memories/unacceptable feelings (often sexual/aggressive in nature) People think conscious and preconscious are most prominent. 1: unacceptable urges, repressed memories, etc, only revealed when discharged e. g. disguised behavior, dreams, freudian slips (slips of tongue) Id: i want that rn i want chocolate. Superego: good people don"t think about those things you"re on diet. Ego: let"s figure out a way to work together eat a small bar of chocolate. Hostile impulses may find expression in track down criminals, become a successful lawyer or reporter: displacement: repressed impulse that are dangerous or unacceptable, then directed toward a safer/substitute target, ex. Psychosexual theory: personality is shaped by early experiences (in the first years of life, kids go through psychosexual stages, defined by which erogenous zone the id is focused on.