PSY 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Reality Principle, Preconscious, Castration Anxiety
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Free association - procedure used in psychoanalysis in which patients say whatever comes into their mind. Memories uncovered during free association often concerned traumatic sexual experiences. Topographic model - feud"s original model of personality structure in which personality is divided into three different levels of awareness. Conscious - part of personality that contains the thoughts we are currently aware of. Can deal with only a tiny percentage of all the information stored in your mind. Preconscious - part of personality that contains thoughts that can be brought into awareness with little difficulty. Unconscious - part of personality that contains material that cannot easily be brought into awareness. Material to which you have no immediate access. Structural model - freud"s model of personality that divides personality into the id, ego, and superego. Id - part of personality concerned with immediate gratification of needs. Selfish part of you, concerned only with satisfying your personal desires.
