PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reality Principle, Preconscious, Conscientiousness

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Personality: stable way of thinking, feeling and acting. Reification: occurs when abstract constructs are treated as if they are real or tangible. Phrenology: judging character by reading bumps" on the head: gall argued skull bumps were sign of specific brain enlargements, psychograph: machine meant to measure bumps on head/give ratings for personalities. The id: entirely unconscious, primitive parts of personality, operating on a pleasure principle. The ego: operates on reality principle, finding gratification for instinctual drives within constraints of reality. Superego: one"s conscious/ idealized standards of behaviour in their culture, operates on a morality principle. Freud"s psychosexual stages: erogenous zone: area of the body where id"s pleasure-seeking psychic energy is focused during particular stage of psychosexual development, fixation: portion of the id"s pleasure remains in a stage because of excessive gratification/frustration. Carl jung"s collective unconscious: represents universal human experiences that we all shar,e manifested into archetypes representing the personality styles.