PSYC 2230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Autopilot, Dream Interpretation, Psychodynamics
20 Oct 2014
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(psych 2230) motivation final exam april 3 (20%) Deterministic: the ultimate cause of motivation and behaviour derives from biologically endowed and socially acquired impulses that determine our desires, thought, feelings, and behaviours. It also holds that personality does not change much after puberty. Pessimistic: it mainly focuses on aggression, conflict, sexuality, anxiety, repression, defence mechanisms, and other shortcomings of human nature. The difference between the psychodynamic and the psychoanalytic is that while the latter stays committed to the. Freudian tradition, the former rather focuses on the study of dynamic unconscious processes, without necessarily embracing the freudian traditions. Dual-instinct theory: the bodily needs can be divided in two categories, eros and thanatos. Eros is the life instinct: its role is to maintain life and ensure individual and collective survival. Think about instincts for food, water, air, sleep, sex, etc. Thanatos signifies the death instinct that pushes the individual towards rest, inactivity, energy conservation.
