PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Erogenous Zone, Natural Selection, Factor Analysis
19 Nov 2016
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Personality: the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual"s distinctive character. Unconscious: unconscious includes id trying to express yourself. Id is the devil on your shoulder urging you to do things. Usually sexual and aggressive psychoanalysis: accessing the unconscious: dreams: free association: slips of the tongue: 3. stages of psychosexual development: erogenous zone:id focuses on energy on different parts of the body as we age reality principle: Traumatic experiences fixation (lingering into adulthood) Patients symptoms rooted in childhood conflicts ? castration anxiety: fear of becoming more women like and losing power. Oedipus complex: kids 3-6 having unconscious sexual desire for their mother. Electra complex: girl"s feelings of inferiority and jealousy. Freud"s personality: id vs superego penis envy: anger. Ego fears losing control generalized anxiety with no clear reason why defense mechanisms: ways of reducing anxiety unconsciously distorting reality. Projection: disguise own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
