PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Autonomic Nervous System, Toilet Training, Abraham Maslow

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Trait theories identify traits (place in category or place along continuum), descriptive. Psychoanalytic, humanistic, social-cognitive theories explains causes of patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Psychoanalytic and humanistic describe humans in terms of motives, human nature. Social cognitive theories in terms of interacting elements, including predispositions (genetics), the social context and thinking patterns (interpretations) Freud clearly made a number of mistakes in the formulation of his ideas, his understanding of unconscious mental processes was pretty much on target. In fact, it is very consistent with modern (cid:374)eu(cid:396)os(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tists" (cid:271)elief that (cid:373)ost (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses a(cid:396)e u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious eric kandel. Personality structure interplay btwn 3 psychic elements of psyche or mind: id instinct, ego intellect, superego conscience. Systems of the mind, not brain structures develop at different times. Id e(cid:374)ti(cid:396)el(cid:455) u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious of the p(cid:396)o(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g, p(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t at (cid:271)i(cid:396)th (cid:894)(cid:272)(cid:396)(cid:455)i(cid:374)g (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455)(cid:895); (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)t, o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts: basic biological drives/needs sex (pleasure), hunger/thirst, aggression (dominance/control)