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Module 19: Freudian and Humanistic Theories
Personality
Defined (pg. 433) as a combination of long-lasting and distinctive behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that typify how we react and adapt to other people and situations.
Typical actions on how we react and behave in situations
Psychodynamic Theories
Definitions
Book: Theories that emphasize the importance of early childhood experiences, unconscious or repressed thoughts that we cannot voluntarily access, and the conflicts between the conscious and unconscious forces that influence our feelings, thoughts and behaviors
Personality theories contending that behavior results from conflict between the conscious and unconscious
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Conscious - aware of what's going on around us
Unconsciousness - all the ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware
Psychoanalysis - the theory of personality Freud developed as well as the form of therapy he invented.
Free association
Dream interpretation
Freudian slips
Three Parts of the mind/personality
Id - contains two biological drives ( sex and aggression) that are the source of all psychic/mental energy
Pleasure principle - the way in which the id seeks immediate gratification of a biological drive
Ex: if youre thirst the id IMMEDIATELY needs water no matter what
Ego - goal is to find safe and socially acceptable ways of satisfying the id's desires and mediates between the demands of the id and superego (conscience)
Operates unconsciously and partly consciously.
Operates by the reality principle -
Superego - goal is to apply the moral values and standards of one's parents or caregivers and society
Operates consciously and unconsciously
Defense Mechanisms
Anxiety: results from conflicts
Module 19: Freudian and Humanistic Theories
Personality
Defined (pg. 433) as a combination of long-lasting and distinctive behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that typify how we react and adapt to other people and situations.
Typical actions on how we react and behave in situations
Psychodynamic Theories
Definitions
Book: Theories that emphasize the importance of early childhood experiences, unconscious or repressed thoughts that we cannot voluntarily access, and the conflicts between the conscious and unconscious forces that influence our feelings, thoughts and behaviors
Personality theories contending that behavior results from conflict between the conscious and unconscious
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Conscious - aware of what's going on around us
Unconsciousness - all the ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware
Psychoanalysis - the theory of personality Freud developed as well as the form of therapy he invented.
Free association
Dream interpretation
Freudian slips
Three Parts of the mind/personality
Id - contains two biological drives ( sex and aggression) that are the source of all psychic/mental energy
Pleasure principle - the way in which the id seeks immediate gratification of a biological drive
Ex: if youre thirst the id IMMEDIATELY needs water no matter what
Ego - goal is to find safe and socially acceptable ways of satisfying the id's desires and mediates between the demands of the id and superego (conscience)
Operates unconsciously and partly consciously.
Operates by the reality principle -
Superego - goal is to apply the moral values and standards of one's parents or caregivers and society
Operates consciously and unconsciously
Defense Mechanisms
Anxiety: results from conflicts