PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personality Psychology, Adaptive Control, Drive Theory

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Chapter 3: what is psychoanalysis, refers technically to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy guided by psychoanalytic theory. He created an organized framework of the mind, describing different mental structures (id, ego and superego) and their relationships to each other. Also described the three levels of consciousness: unconscious, preconscious and conscious. Self-preservative: all our physical needs (thirst, hunger) Sexual: the sex drive-source of motivation feelings and activities we can to relieve it: libido was energized. The body"s inert machine; this machine remained immobile unless it. Sexual drive was the answer to the need for energy, which mobilized the system. Ultimate source of energy for all mental activity, including all activities that modern personality psychologists call cognitive (thinking, perceiving, imagining, problem solving) There is conflict within the individual and between the individual and society: conflict. Accepted most of freud"s theory but extended his personality development scheme, modifying it to some extent: alternative views of basic human motivation, like jung and adler.