Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Unconditional Positive Regard, Carl Jung, Object Relations Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

The distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Components of identity that distinguish that person from other people. The behaviours are viewed as being caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors. The person"s behaviours seem to fit together (organization and structure) in a meaningful fashion, suggesting an inner personality that guides and directs behaviour. Similar to hydraulic systems, instinctual drives generate psychic energy, which powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. Energy system modifications and exchanges of energy within the system. Id within the unconscious mind; innermost core of the personality, the only structure present at birth, and the source of all psychic energy. Operates according to the pleasure principle seeks immediate gratification or release, regardless of rational considerations and environmental realities. When dangerous id impulses threaten to get out of control or when danger from the environment threatens, the result is anxiety.