Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Personal Unconscious, Freudian Slip, Psychological Abuse

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling and acting that charterize a person"s responses to life situations o o. Components of identity distinguish individuals: behaviors are seen to have internal causes not external, behaviors fit together in a pattern imply personality. Looks at causes of behavior at the unconscious level. Psychoanalysis: analysis of internal (usually unconscious) psychological force. Treated patients with conversion hysteria: under hypnosis or free association, patients would begin to remember past traumatic events. Instinctual sexual and aggressive drives generate psychic energy which presses for release o o: release may be direct or indirect. Indirectly via fantasizing, painting or even farming (?!: over-reliance on defense mechanisms (eg. repression) maladaptive/ dysfunctional behaviour. Thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we are currently aware. People think these are most prominent mental events o. Mental events not currently in awareness, but can be easily recalled (or focused on) Cannot be brought into conscious mind under ordinary circumstances.