PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Erogenous Zone, Extraversion And Introversion, Pollination Syndrome
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Personality: characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviours that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Instincts= mental representations arising out of biological or physical need. To satisfy life instinct follow pleasure principle (seek pleasure avoid pain) Mind is divided into 3 zones of mental awareness: conscious: people are aware of their thoughts, preconscious: content that is not currently in awareness but can easily be retrieved (ltm, unconscious: material mind cannot easily retrieve. Unconscious mind contains wishes, desires, motives that are associated with conflict, anxiety and pain. Freud believed that children go through psychosexual stages to satisfy libidinal urges focused on 1 of the erogenous zones (mouth, anus, genitals) Oral stage- pleasure sought through mouth- hungry infant. Phallic stage- genitals, also children desire exclusive relationship with opposite sex parent- considers same sex parent rival. Latency stage: libidinal urges are suppressed or channeled into doing schoolwork. Genital stage: mature attitudes about sexuality and adulthood.
