PSY 1018 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9 (vocab): Ego Ideal, Psychodynamics, Unconscious Mind

• School: St. John's University
• Department: PSY - PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSY 1018
• Professor: Farbman

Document Summary

Personality: the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his or her characteristic behavior and thought. Core of personality: the tendencies and traits common to all human beings. Psychodynamic theorists: those theorists, including psychoanalytical theorists, who are concerned with understanding and analyzing the inner function & processes that yield personality & behavior. Libido: a basic energy source in all humans that is directed at maximizing pleasure & surviving. Unconscious mind: the part of the mind composed mainly of repressed motives and thoughts. Id: a basic and primitive part of the mind that is the origin of survival motives and sexual desires, as well as motives for self-destruction and aggression. Pleasure principle: the demand of the unconscious id for gratification of desires. Ego: the conscious part of the mind that includes our knowledge, skills, beliefs, and conscious motives.