Video Analysis: The Growing Years

This video The Growing Years was very interesting and captivating. This video is related to the chapter in multiple ways. It explains things such as the levels of metal life, the provinces of the mind and the dynamics of personality. “To Freud, mental life is divided into two levels, the unconscious and the conscious. In Freudian psychology the three levels of mental life are used to designate both a process and a location” (Feist, Feist, & Roberts, 2013, p.26). The video begins explaining a baby’s personality and how since little (12 months) a baby has a personality of its own and how they are also very independent in their own way. Our personality is what makes all of us distinctive and unique. The video also explained questions such as
The bottom line is that psychology has thought experts that the way we look at things shape the kind of world we see out there which this couldn’t be any more accurate. Several major theories of personality have been developed for example Sigmund Freud developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality which is basically a biological model of personality. “More specifically, the purpose of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the superego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id” (Feist, Feist, & Roberts, 2013, p.51). The video also explains the provinces of the mind which are the id, ego, and the superego which are in constant conflict and we also learned that parent’s behaviors are internalized into the child’s personality system. Theories give us an idea of what humankind is like and the classic psychoanalytic theory tell us that at our core we are self-interested animals that the real emotions in the human is to get what they want and when they want it and that through experience and society we are able to control this but the general idea is that we are basically very