PSYC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 46: Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Erogenous Zone
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Psyc 1 textbook notes module 46: introduction to personality and psychodynamic. Personality: individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, acting. Cognitive theories: interaction between people"s traits and their social context. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and importance of childhood experience. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality; attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: freud = reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, memories; modern psychologists = information processing of which we are unaware. Free association: method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial/embarrassing. Id: reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives; operates on the pleasure principle: pleasure principle: needs immediate gratification. Superego: freud; internalized ideals, provides standards for judgement and future aspirations.
