01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychopathology, Externals, Conscientiousness

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Carl Persing

Document Summary

Personality: a set of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral tendencies that people display over time and across situations and that distinguish individuals from each other. Psychological determinism: the view that all thoughts, feelings, and behavior ultimately have an underlying psychological cause. Sex and aggression are the primary motivating forces of human behavior. : telephone number: bottom/final level unconscious: houses the thoughts, feelings, and motivations that cannot voluntarily be brought into consciousness but that nevertheless influence our conscious thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Freud proposed three mental structures: id: exists from birth, houses the sexual and aggressive drives, physical needs and simple psychological needs. The id lives by the pleasure principle, wanting pleasure and immediate gratification of its needs regardless of the consequence. Heavily relies on the unconscious: superego: a personality structure, proposed by freud, that is formed during early childhood and houses the sense of right and wrong, based on the internalization of parental and cultural morality.