PSYCH101 Chapter Notes -Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Unearth, Systematic Desensitization

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Personality- an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Sigmund freud"s psychoanalytic theory proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality. Free association- a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis- freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious- freud believed that the mind is mostly hidden. It is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Freud believed that our unconscious thoughts influenced us in our daily lives without us being aware of them at all. Also believed that our personality is the result of our efforts to resolve this basic conflict to express these impulses in ways that bring satisfaction without also bringing guilt or punishment. Id- contains reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to.