Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Unconscious Mind, Psychosexual Development, Collective Unconscious

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

Document Summary

Personality the distinctive and relative enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to life situations. Look for causes of behaviour in a dynamic interplay of inner forces conflicting with one another. These observations convinced freud that unconscious part of the mind exerts great influence on behaviour. He experimented with hypnosis, free association, and dream analysis in an attempt to access the unconscious mind. Overtime psychoanalysis became a theory of personality, and a way to treat psychological disorders. May be brought up in dreams or from slips of the tongue. Freud divided personality into 3 categories: id, ego, superego. Ego: functions at conscious level, links the id to the real world, operates according to reality principle: Tests reality to decide when and under what conditions the id can safely discharge its impulse and satisfy its needs. Superego: the moral arm of personality, develops by age 4-5, holds values and ideals of society.