PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 70: Eating Disorder, The Contemporary Review, Birth Order

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Id instinctual energy (pleasure principle) i want it and i want it now , impulse. Defense mechanisms unconscious strategies for dealing with anxiety caused by the personality components. Repression keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious. A traumatized soldier has no recollection of the details of a close brush with death. Projection attributing one"s own thoughts, feelings, motives to another. A woman who dislikes her boss thinks she likes her boss but feels that the boss doesn"t like her. Displacement diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitute target. After parental scolding, a young girl takes her anger out on her little brother. Reaction formation behaving in a way that is exactly the opposite of one"s true feelings. A parent who unconsciously resent a child spoils the child with outlandish gifts. Regression a reversion to immature patterns of behavior. An adult has a temper tantrum when he doesn"t get his way.