PSY100H1 Chapter 13: PSY100 Chapter 13.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

At the conscious level, people are aware of their thoughts. The preconscious level consists of content that is not currently in awareness but that could be brought to awareness; it is roughly analogous to long-term memory. The unconscious level contains material that the mind cannot easily retrieve: unconscious level contains wishes, desires, and motives, and they are associated with conflict, anxiety, or pain; to protect the person from distress, they are not accessible. Sometimes this information leaks into consciousness, such as occurs during a. Freudian slip, in which a person accidentally reveals a hidden motive. Early childhood experiences have a major impact on the development of personality: at each psychosexual stage, libido is focused on one of the erogenous zones: the mouth, the anus, or the genitals. The oral stage lasts from birth to 18 months, during which time pleasure is sought through the mouth; hungry infants experience relief when they breastfeed and thus associate pleasure with sucking.