Psychology 2550A/B Chapter 14: chapter 14

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

No direct contact with the outside world or reality. Functions to keep impulses of id in control. If the id"s desires are too strong, they resort to the use of defense mechanisms superego. Controls impulses of id with external control. Personality: ego cannot always control id, thus, con ict occurs, anxiety when impulses of id threaten to get out of control, defense mechanisms are called upon. Defense mechanisms - unconscious distortions of reality used to cope with a situation repression. Thoughts and wishes remain in the unconscious. Revealed in slips of the tongue, dreams sublimation. Unacceptable impulses are presented as socially desirable behaviour. Displace your anger to someone who is not going to ght back projection. The emotion connected with an upsetting event is repressed, and the situation will be dealt with as an intellectually interesting event. Example: someone being rejected thinks it"s interesting how unpredictable the girl was reaction formation. Exaggerated expression of the opposite behaviour rationalization.