PSYC 2500H Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethology, Reinforcement, Puberty

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Theory: a set of concepts and proposiions designed to organize, describe, and explain an exising set of observaions: help us organize our thinking about aspects of experience that interest us. Psychosexual theory: freud"s theory states maturaion of the sex insincts underlies stages of personality development, and that the manner in which parents manage children"s insinctual impulses determines the traits that children display. Unconscious moives: freud"s term for feelings, experiences, and conlicts that inluence a person"s thinking and behaviour but lie outside the person"s awareness. Repression: a type of moivated forgeing in which anxiety-provoking thoughts and conlicts are forced out of conscious awareness. Insinct: an inborn biological force that moivates a paricular response or class of responses. Id: psychoanalyical term for the inborn component of the personality that is driven by insincts. Ego: psychoanalyical term for the raional component of the personality. Superego: psychoanalyical term for the component of personality that consists of one"s internalized moral standards.