PSYC 2130 Midterm: CHAPTER 4 exam
12 Nov 2015
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Chapter 4: freud"s dual drives, he revised his theory of motivation to include the aggressive drive, in addition to sex drive. He still believed sex drive to be more prominent. The process of investing energy is called cathecting. The stronger the cathexis, the more energy invested in it. These are not permanent; when we change focus, the energy is transferred: reduction of psychic tension is necessary for a person to function. We want to reduce tension to increase pleasure tendency to reduce tension immediately is know as the pleasure principle. Ex: "freudian slips": errors made in speech; they reveal something about the person"s inner thoughts or real intents: implies that some of our feelings can be hidden from consciousness. 3. organizational/structural: personality is organized in several layers of structure and functions: there are three structural divisions. Id (primitive, pleasure seeking), ego (rational self), superego (internalized values of society) Contains archetypes/predispositions to think and act in a certain.
