CAS PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Preconscious, Erogenous Zone, Determinism

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Martha Tompson

Document Summary

Personality (individuals unique and relatively consistent patterns, thinking, feeling, and behaving: theories of personality. Psychoanalytic: founder: sigmund freud, dynamic theory of personality (forces in the individual are constantly embattled; a lot of internal con ict) Id- libido-pleasure principle: when you are born you are all id because it operates on pleasure (as a baby - i want what i want and i want it now) Ego - reality principle: this forms a bit later and this says you can not get what you want when you want it. This tries to meet the needs of the id but within reality. Superego - morality principle: when a child says to its doll - you can"t do that. When the superego develops, the ego tries to balance all of these things, all of this is unconscious. Personality: freudian theory (freud based his theory in inadequate evidence - he made his theory from just watching his own kids.