PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Adaptive Control, Psychoanalysis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Psychoanalysis: encompasses a theory of personality, an approach to studying personality, and procedures for assessing and changing personality. Theories emphasize the primacy of driving forces within the person that motivate them to display consistent parents of behave. Observations made in psychoanalytic therapy form basis or personality theory and research evidence in support of theory"s validity. Drive: inborn force built into the human mind (direct tone of thoughts, feelings and activities) Tension experienced when drives are unsatisfied and only relieved when drive is expressed. Freud: classes of drive; self-preservative (physical needs) & sexual. Libido: source of energy of all mental activity. Ego: ensuring the id impulses are in check: adaptive control rather than defense, general motives (ex. competence) rather than limiting to sexual and aggressive drives, conscious determinism rather than unconscious determinism. Object relations: set of cognitive and affective processes in close relatopships. Another distinct drives motivates human behaviour; human contact.