PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hermann Rorschach, Terror Management Theory, Karen Horney

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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A. 1. view human behavior as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind, associated motives, and conflicts. Coined terms like ego, repression, projection, complex, sibling rivalry, freudian slip, and fixation. Was a neurological doctor until he found that some disorders could not be explained by neurology. > a method of exploring the unconscious where the person relaxes and says anything and everything on their mind. Freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. The techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. > according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. > according to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Human personality arises from a conflict between impulse and restraint; between our aggressive, pleasure seeking biological urges and our internalized social controls over these urges. Strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress.