PSYC 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Hermann Rorschach, Unconscious Mind, Humanistic Psychology

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100B
• Professor: Chim Louise

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Freud was the first to focus clinical attention on our unconscious mind. Unconscious mind: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Freud believed our personality arises from a conflict between impulse and restraint. Id: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.