Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Unconditional Positive Regard, Psychosexual Development, 16Pf Questionnaire

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Personality: the distinctive way a person responds to life situations. Reality principle: on what conditions can the id safely discharge. Ego"s confrontation with threatening impulses leads to anxiety. Anxiety motivates the ego to deal with the problem. Repression: ego uses energy to repress anxiety-arousing memories. Id"s pleasure seeking tendencies are focused on the erogenous zones. Being in one of his psychosexual stages of different periods of time leads to fixation. Fixation: a state of arrested psychosexual development where instincts are focused on a psychic theme. He was very clinical observation, but that doesn"t hold up much. If you suppress the thought of someone, they will come up in your dreams more often. Too much of child actions on future personality. Strive for superiority: compensate for real or imagine defects (inferiority complex) Freud thought them as being motivated by animalist instincts. History of human race is expressed in unconscious. Tendencies to perceive an experience in a certain way.