PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sigmund Freud, Absolute Threshold, Unconscious Mind
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Absolute threshold detected 50% of the time. Source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, impulses, particularly are sexual and aggressiveness. Stops you from doing what your id may want you to do. Realistic part the mediates between the desires of the id and superego. Regulating mechanism enabling you to delay gratifying immediate needs and functions e ectively in the real world. Ego does not like to feel anxious. Dreams are caused by pressure buildup in unconsciousness. Dreams are caused by repressed unconscious desires. Dreams disguise the true meaning (latent content) in bizarre symbolic message (manifest context) In the conscious mind, symbols typically have one meaning. In the unconscious world, symbols have multiple meanings in all simultaneously. Intended to help you learn more about what you think and feel. Writing the dream or telling it (dream log: opposites. Concept that unconscious mind treats opposites as being equal. Bream of a cold room equal a hot room.
