PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Determinism
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Human motivation people have inside of them wants, desires, aims, and intentions. Characteristic adaptations more specific and particular aspects of psychological individuality that are contextualized in time, place or social role. 4 basic propositions: determinism : forces over which we have little control determine our human behavior and experience, drive : these powerful forces exist within us, and they can typically be traced back to primitive drives or instincts. According to freud, sexuality and aggression are the roots of human motivation. Human mind as machine uses energy and this psychic energy derived from biological instincts. Psychoanalytic approach to personality is that much of what we know and feel is outside our conscious awareness. We don"t know real reasons for what we do b/c prime determinants of human behavior are split off from what we typically can graps in conscious everyday experience. Freud convinced that neurotic symptoms of clients came from personal conflicts/fantasies pushed into unconscious.
