Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Toilet Training

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Matthew Maxwell-Smith

Document Summary

Personality: the unique combination of consistent behavioural traits that make up an individual. Personality traits: consistent disposition to behave in a certain way in specific circumstances. Conscious: what you are thinking about at the moment. Preconscious: readily available information that you are not currently thinking about. Unconscious: vast majority of who you are, cannot be accessed without help and work: contains the majority of what shapes us first to develop, present from birth. Id: pleasure principle, wants to seek out pleasure and avoid unpleasant thing, responsible for addictions. Freud believed behaviour was the outcome of a series of internal conflicts, especially sexual and aggressive conflict. Sex and aggression have more complex social controls. Sex and aggression urges are thwarted more often than other urges. Homophobia: extremely homopobic males more likely to struggle with sexuality: taking an existing feeling and flipping it around. Sublimination: channeling your urges/feelings into something socially acceptable.