PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Personality Development, Preconscious, Heredity
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The unique, stable ways that someone thinks, feels, and behaves. Sigmund freud: founder of psychoanalytic movement, europe in the early 1900s. Goal: father as many children as possible. Have no sexual urges: disclaimers about freud. Got people talking about the mind and non-observable behavior. Nearly all of freud"s theories have either been disproven or are untestable: science relies on experimentation, freud"s divisions of consciousness. Information that is not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness. Can be revealed through dream and freudian slips: trying to repress something and it happens to come out. Ice berg conscious is above water, preconscious just below water, id majority unconscious: freud"s parts of personality. Libido: instinctual energy, conflicts with society"s standards. Pleasure principle: how the id functions, immediate satisfaction of needs, no regard for consequences, if it feels good, do it. Develops out of a need to deal with reality. Reality principle: how the ego functions, satisfy the id when there are no negative consequences.
