PSYC 305 Exam #1 Study Guide Defense Mechanisms: help ego deal with anxiety (Ego cannot handle the conflicts between ID and superego.) * Rationalism: plausible‚ but false reason for action * “I needed to break up with my boyfriend for his own good.” * Sublimation: socially productive displacement * “I’ll just go to the gym.” * Projection: ascribing own impulses to others * “He hates me.” * Denial: refusal to acknowledge the impulse * “I don’t hate my ex
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theory of Sigmund Freud in about the id‚ ego‚ and superego‚ also helped to change my views about diverse people. Sigmund Freud stated that man has three distinct personality structures‚ the id‚ ego‚ and superego. The id operates according to the pleasure principle‚ id pursues pleasure and avoids pain‚ and it has qualities of a spoiled child (selfish). To me the id is the personality structure of the flesh. The superego is the opposite of the id. Superego represents the moral branch of our being
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Unit 18: Humanistic and Psychodynamic Abraham Harold Maslow- Humanistic Approach Humanistic is the psychology study of how the human works as a whole. This studies the uniqueness of the person through their behaviour. Rather than just observing the humans behaviour‚ humanistic psychologists try to study the humans behaviour first person rather than just observing. Meaning they try to understand the situation and the emotional feelings the person is going through for them to have that specific
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unconscious mind). In addition‚ according to Freud‚ there are three parts of personality called as id‚ ego and superego. The id works on the pleasure principle. Its goal is instant gratification and satisfaction from our primitive drives related to hunger‚ sex‚ aggression‚ and irrational impulses. The ego works on the reality principle. It protects the person against the immediate gratification of the id. Conscious awareness
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Psychological Basis of Personality Development Human beings are the most immature at birth and have the longest period of development before they become capable of all the activities and skill of an adult. Adult behavior and personality characteristics are influenced by events that occur during the early years of life‚ until maturity. It is a product of continuous interaction between heredity‚ environment‚ and experience‚ or time. The biological predispositions present at birth interact with the
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Themes of the “id‚” a selfish‚ primal‚ version of one’s self concerned only with physical desires; the “superego‚” part of a person’s psyche that is only worried about ideals and morals; and the “ego‚” the rational part of the brain that attempts to satisfy both the id and superego natures make up an immense proportion of the breakdown of this story. Repression and other psychological defense mechanisms are also very important in the analysis as well. The first display of the id is that of the
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What is Psychoanalytic Theory? Psychoanalytic theory originated with the work of Sigmund Freud. Through his clinical work with patients suffering from mental illness‚ Freud came to believe that childhood experiences and unconscious desires influenced behavior. Based on his observations‚ he developed a theory that described development in terms of a series of psychosexual stages. According to Freud‚ conflicts that occur during each of these stages can have a lifelong influence on personality and
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theory that arises within the Lord of the Flies by William Golding is Freud’s psychosexual stages. By analyzing Freud’s psychosexual stages we can see that the boys are within the genital stage‚ But the boys are fixated within the Phallic stage the superego is born. At this time your libido becomes sexual and you also begin to search for your perfect mate through the model of your parents. In the Lord of the Flies we can see that the boy’s libido is sexual because when the following quote is analyzed
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Austrian psychologist. It is a theory used to explain human behaviour. Psychoanalytic theory states that the id‚ the ego‚ and the superego make up the human personality. The id represents the instinctual drive for instant satisfactions. The job of the ego is to fulfill the demands of the id in a safe and socially acceptable way while also considering the ideals of the super ego. The super ego is comprised of the idealistic goals and ideal self one wishes to accomplish. It strives for perfection and
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There are many different theories on personality and many different approaches. I am going to talk about the Trait‚ Cognitive‚ and Motivational approaches and how they apply to me as an individual. TRAIT APPROACH Trait theory is based on several assumptions. The first assumption is that any difference between people that is seen as significant will have a name. The second is that these names‚ knows as traits‚ and are conceived of as continuous dimensions. In general‚ Trait Theory assumes that people
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