PSYC 1000 Chapter : Chapter 13 Outline
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More on personality: behavioral component of identity. Internal rather than external factors: organization and structure. Perspectives on personality: psychodynamic, humanistic, trait theories, biological, behavioral/cognitive. Came up with theory of unconscious mind. Freud says personality is : an energy system . Instinctual drives produce psychic energy: psychic energy constantly wants release . Three types of mental events: conscious. Mental events in current awareness: preconscious. Memories, feelings, and thoughts that we are currently unaware of but that can be recalled easily: unconscious. A dynamic realm of wishes, feelings, and impulses that lies beyond our awareness. Id is the only structure present at birth: exists totally within the unconscious mind, pleasure principle. The ego: develops second, after the id, operates primarily at the conscious level, reality principle, executive of personality . The superego: the moral part of personality, contains the traditional values and ideals of family and society, strives to control the impulses of the id and for moral perfection.
