Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Unconscious Mind, Psychoanalysis, Long-Term Memory
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Chapter 14: Psychology
Who are you?
What makes you different from the person next to you?
How would you describe yourself?
Psychodynamic Theory - Freud
• "your mother made you who you are… blame her"
o Experiences from childhood affecting today
Humanistic Theories
• "people strive to reach their potential"
• Focus on conscious experience: the self
o Who you are today
o All striving toward self-actualization (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)
Learning/Behaviour Theories
• You are a product of your environment
o Ex: classical conditioning in environment and how it effects us
• Reinforces in environment strengthen/maintain it over time
▪ Outcome of situation positive: likely to reoccur
▪ Outcome of situation negative: wont want it to reoccur
Social Cognitive Theories
• People interact with their environments; self efficacy
Trait Theory
• "I can describe you in five words or less…"
o How we can go about measuring personality
o How many characteristics of personality do we need to be able label who you are
Freud: Structure of Personality
• The iceberg analogy:
o Top 10% of iceberg:
• Conscious
▪ Ex: working memory, everything we are currently aware of
• Only aware of small portion
o Middle:
• Preconscious
▪ Beneath surface, not immediately accessible
▪ Sorta like an entrance to long term memory
• You aren't currently thinking about these memories but you can bring it
up
o Bottom:
• Unconscious (Id)
▪ Vast majority of what goes on in our mind is out of our conscious awareness
• Explanations of behaviour
▪ Cannot access it directly
Chapter 14: Psychology
▪ Psychoanalytic therapy is what gets into unconscious mind to see what drives
your motivations, behaviours, desires
• Three actors on the mind:
o These interact with each other to result in our behaviour, thoughts, etc
o Id:
• First to develop in childhood
▪ All baby knows - I'm hungry, I want this/that, etc
• Operates on pleasure principle: just wants stuff
▪ What drives us to do things
• Just in unconscious
▪ When Id is out of control this can be interpreted as their Id being a bigger part
of their personality and Ego not strong enough to get away from pleasures
• Ex: addictions
o Ego:
• As result of experiences, we learn that we can't get everything we want
▪ We learn from reality over first few years of our life
• This is how the ego develops on the reality principle
• There are constraints/limitations and we can't always get what we
want
• Spans all levels of consciousness
• Should be in charge
▪ Ego tries to satisfy desire demands of Id and moral demands of superego
• Ex: compromise
o Superego:
• Practically synonymous with conscious
• Operates on morality principle: morals
▪ Part of us that says what's right/wrong - what you should/shouldn’t do
• If superego is out of control and you are extremely restricted/rigidly controlled
Defence Mechanisms
All of these act on repression
Whole idea is to keep truth out of consciousness
• Repression
o We have a lot of things we don’t want to recognize in ourselves
• Our unconscious mind actively fights to keep these things in our unconscious
▪ Ex: childhood abuse - don’t have skills to deal with this so you push thoughts
and memories down to repress or suppress it and it becomes locked in
unconscious
• Denial
o Deny to others and yourself that there is any problem or that anything happened
• Displacement
o Our mind redirects, disguises us from becoming aware of your feelings from past issues in
unconscious getting out -> directing your feeling/emotions at something else so you don’t
have to acknowledge the actual pain its from
• Projection
o When you become aware of an issue, instead of becoming aware of it being part of you, you
project it onto someone else
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