PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Reality Principle, Rorschach Test, Erogenous Zone

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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 important of childhood experiences. 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. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thought adn actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. id: a reservoir of unconsciour psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principal, demanding immediate gratification. Ego: the largely conscious, executive part of personality that, according to freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego and reality.