PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Motivation, Conscientiousness, Preconscious

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Wendy Quinton

Document Summary

--an individual"s disinct and relaively enduring patern of thoughts, feelings, moives and behaviors. --unconscious is dynamic (moivaional) in conlict with other aspects of consciousness. Structure of consciousness: conscious, preconscious (non-conscious, not immediately, recall easily, unconscious (thoughts, moivates, desires---cause anxiety, force on unconscious) # behavior determined by combinaion of forces (smooth---erraic behavior: not correlated) Eros (libido) vs. thanatos life insinct vs. death insinct: ego: Reality principle: maintain raional; most conscious structure-mental health. Speciic conlict in irst 3 stages erogenous zone. Boys: castraion conlict (compete with father; mother"s sexual partner idenify father as model) Stage 4: latency (middle childhood) ---no much sexual energy. Inadequate evidence for some concept (eg. penis envy) Views on women, homosexuality (women, men not equal) Focus on unconscious, early childhood experiences incredibly inluenial. Unparalleled complexity, depth of descripion of human personality. Safety and security needs (long-term survival and stability) Peak experience leeing but profound emoional high (more oten)