PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan, Albert Bandura
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Psy311 chapter 2:classical theories of social and personality development (if any unclear def. >(def) instinct: inborn biological force that motivates response. 1)eros (life instinct): promote survival by directing life-sustaining activity, i. e. breathing, eating, sex. 2)thanatos(death instinct): freud"s term for inborn self-destructive instinct that characterize humans, i. e. arson , fistfight,sadistic aggression, murder even masochism. 2. free association (quick spelling out of one"s thought) All 3 of these help to seek the unconscious motives that the patients had repressed. (def) unconscious motives: Freud"s term for feeling, experience and conflicts that affect thinking and behavior. It is out of awareness (def) repression: Forces out anxiety-provoking thoughts and conflicts out of conscious awareness. Freud analyzed the motives and events that cause suppression. Humans have sexual and aggressive instincts (inborn biological force that motivates specific re- sponse) that must be served. But society dictates many of these needs as undesirable and must be restrained.
