PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hermann Rorschach, Projective Test, Learned Helplessness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Victor Emerson

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxed and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts: the techniques used in treating psychologicak 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 psychologist, information processing of which we are unaware. Id: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. Ego: the largely conscious executive part of personality that, according to. Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego and reality.