PSYC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Erogenous Zone, Reality Principle, Nipple
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Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Freud"s idea of the mind"s structure: psychologists have used an iceberg image to illustrate freud"s idea that the mind is mostly hidden beneath the conscious surface. Note that the id is totally unconscious, but the ego and superego operate both consciously and unconsciously.
