PSYB30H3 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Textbook Notes

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Motivation a term used to denote the forces and factors, usually viewed as residing w/in the person, that energize and direct behaviour common motivational ideas in personality psych include wants, desires, needs, goals, strivings, projects, and tasks. Sigmund freud most influential: psychoanalysis focus on the unconscious det6terminants of behaviour, intrapsychic conflict, and instinctual drives concerning sexuality and aggression. 1784: baumesiter and gay argue that middle-class adults in 19th-century. Europe accepted the general idea of an inner world unknowable to the conscious self: baumesiter even asserts that victorian men and woman were preoccupied with the involuntary revelation of this inner self to others. People sometimes attain good insights and arrive at satisfying conclusions when they put conscious thought aside and go with their gut intuitions. Repression - freud"s concept for the process of casting thoughts, memories, feelings, and conflicts out of consciousness, rendering them unremembered www. notesolution. com: stored away b/c they threaten a person"s well-being.

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