CHAPTER 2 Flashcards
The emphasis is on the unconscious mind rather than the conscious mind. This perspective argues that the primnary factor that determines and influences our personality and its development is our unconscious mind which contains thoughts, feelings, and urges that are unpleasant and unacceptable.
Psychoanalytic
divides the “I” into Conscious or that which we are aware of. Freud theorized that our minds are like an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg, which comprised only 10% of the overall structure, represents the conscious mind. While the bigger part of the íceberg that is submerged to the water represents the unconscious mind.
Topographical Model
3 Iceberg Principle
- Conscious Level
- Preconscious Level
- Unconscious Level
The individual’s thoughts and perceptions which are readily available to one’s awareness..
Conscious Level
The individual’s memories and stored knowledge. These information are not immediately part of one’s consciousness but it can be brought into awareness through recollection.
Preconscious Level
this level constitute the largest part of the iceberg. It includes fears, violent motives, irrational wishes, and selfish needs that are usually repressed by the individuals because it is deemed as unacceptable unpleasant by the society.
Unconscious Level
Believes that our personality has three structures
Structural Model
Operates under PleasurePrinciple. -The ld d doesn’t care about reality, about the needs of anyone else, only its own satisfaction.
ID
Operates under Reality Principle. -It is the ego’s job to meet the needs of the ID, while taking into consideration the reality of the situation.
EGO
It is based on the Morality Principle. It is developed due to the moral and ethical restraints placed on us by our caregivers. - conscience
SUPEREGO
Who said that theorized that thr healthy personality development requires a with each other-intrapsychic conflict-conflict within the he mind.
Freud
Who said that theorized that thr healthy personality development requires a with each other-intrapsychic conflict-conflict within the he mind.
Freud
It makes one a psychopath, lacking a conscience, or an ogre, selfishly meeting one’s needs without concern for others.
ID
An overly strong superego makes one a worrier, a neurotic, so overwhelmed by guilt that it is difficult to get satisfacton.
SUPEREGO
converted Freud’s emnhasis to a focus on social relationships into eight psychosocial stages each of Eriksons eight stages was described as a time of crisis-a time when the personality would go one way or the other.
Erik Erikson
