Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Freudian Slip, Personal Unconscious, Reaction Formation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Blindness, paralysis, etc. with no physical causes. Under hypnosis, or free association patients would begin to remember past traumatic events: after remembering, symptoms disappear! Name and briefly describe freud"s 3 levels of consciousness. Conscious: thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we are currently aware. Preconscious: mental events not currently in awareness, but can be easily recalled (or focused on: think of your 16th birthday ordinary circumstances. Unconscious: cannot be brought into the conscious mind under: unacceptable urges, repressed urges, etc, only revealed when discharged (e. g. disguised behaviour, largest and most important dreams, freudian slips ) Briefly describe the roles of the id, ego, and superego of these structures of personality, in terms of selfish urges, moral values, and practical judgments. Id exists only in the uconscious level; it is the source of all. Psychic energy (urges: present at birth, is totally irrational (no contact with reality, operates according to the pleasure principle .