PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Unconscious Mind, Projective Test, Reality Principle

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Jenna Boulanger

Document Summary

Personality-a person"s characterisic patern of thinking, feeling, and acing. Psychodynamic theories-view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experience. Psychoanalysis-atributes thoughts and acions to unconscious moives and conlicts. Free associaion-method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind. Latent content-censored expression of the dreamer"s unconscious wishes. Id-unconscious energy that strives to saisfy basic aggressive drives. Operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate graiicaion. Ego-conscious execuive part of personality that mediates the demands of the id. Operates on the reality principle, saisfying the id"s desires in ways that bring pleasure over pain. Superego-part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and future aspiraions. Psychosexual stages-childhood stages of development in which the id"s energies focus on disinct erogenous zones (pleasure sensiive areas). Ideniicaion-process by which children incorporate their parent"s values into their developing superegos.