PSY 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reaction Formation, Reality Principle, Classical Conditioning
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Freud theorized that behavior results from interaction of: Id (pleasure principle: ego (reality principle, superego (executive branch) Sublimation: keeping yourself so busy you can"t think about things. Rationalization: convince yourself it is a good decision. Displacement: upset at your boss, start a fight with your roommate (displace the feeling) Repression: restore thoughts and anxieties away (productive procrastination as a way to repress what you"re feeling) Reaction formation: do the opposite of what the id says (do the opposite of your instincts) Projection: you have an anxiety and project it on another person. Regression: starting to suck thumb, start crying (regress to earlier developmental stage) Classical conditioning: (what happens before the response, antecedents) pavlov"s dog, salivation. Acquisition (cs and ucs paired), extinction(ucs withheld), spontaneous recovery (cs again presented) Generalization: response conditioned to one stimulus can be evoked by other similar stimuli. Operant conditioning: (what happens after the response, consequences)
