PSYB30H3 Chapter 7: "MOTIVES AND GOALS"
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motivation- used to denote the forces and factors, usually viewed as residing within the person, that energize and direct behaviour. Common motivational ideas in personality psychology include wants, desires, needs, goals, striving, projects and tasks. most influential psychologist of the 20th century. prime inventor of psychoanalysis - aspect of psychology that focuses on the unconscious determinants of behavior, intrapsychic conflict, and instinctual drives concerning sexuality and aggression. It also denotes the process of engaging in psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic standpoint. unconscious- the state of being outside of awareness. It is a shadowy realm of the mind wherein resides repressed thoughts, feelings, memories, conflicts and the life. we do not and typically cannot know what the real reasons are for what we do because the prime determinants of human behaviour are split off from what we typically can grasp in conscious everyday experience.
