PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Long-Term Memory, Iceberg, Preconscious
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What people do and say are the tip of the iceberg. Motives and desires that lie buried beneath the surface. Dynamic because the forces are pitted against each other. Whatever you are aware of at any given moment: preconscious. Events out of awareness but that can be recalled (like long term memory: unconscious. Considered by freud to be the primary motivating force of behaviour. Contains repressed memories, instincts, and wishes that have never been allowed into consciousness. Freud"s theor(cid:455) (cid:449)as (cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)tro(cid:448)ersial as he proposed the following processes. The logical, relational, realistic part of the personality. Acts according to the reality principle (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider (cid:272)o(cid:374)strai(cid:374)ts of the real (cid:449)orld to gratif(cid:455) the id"s (cid:449)ishes: super ego. I(cid:374)itiall(cid:455) refle(cid:272)ts pare(cid:374)t"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)ds o(cid:448)er ti(cid:373)e to i(cid:374)(cid:272)orporate so(cid:272)ial (cid:374)or(cid:373)s. Anxiety when impulses of id threaten to get out of control. According to sigmund freud slips of the tongue reveal the thoughts and desires of the unconscious mind.
