PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Reaction Formation, Penis Envy, Inferiority Complex
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View human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and the unconscious mind, including associated motives and conflicts. (freud) Personality - a person"s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. After medical school, he set up a private practice specializing in nervous disorders. 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 this would follow a chain of thought leading into the person"s unconscious, where painful memories (often from childhood) could be retrieved and released. 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. Unconscious - according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts. wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing and which we are unaware.