Freud, memories, and the self

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social psychology

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scientific study of how we think and feel about and behave towards the people around us and how our thoughts/feelings/behaviors are influenced by these people

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Freud

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founder of psychoanalysis - unpopular because of
- strange theories (penis envy, etc…),
- sexuality conversations ,
- drug use
- being an asshole

• unconscious motivation, unconscious dynamics and defense mechanisms

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unconscious motivation

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unknown reasons for feelings and actions

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unconscious dynamics

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ID: primitive desires
Ego: balance between and conflict between the two
Superego: do’s and don’ts

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Defense mechanisms

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a way for the ego to protect itself; no conscious awareness of strategy, Some examples include:
- denial, rationalization, intellectualization, displacement, and sublimation

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denial

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rejecting a thought or feeling

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rationalization

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coming up with a bogus explanation to justify behavior

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intellectualization

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over-analyzing to avoid feeling

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displacement

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redirecting feelings to another target

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sublimation

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redirecting feelings in a a USEFUL way

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Why reject Freud?

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1. proven wrong
2. Vague
   - circular reasoning
   - Barnum statements: generic assumptions of personalities of personalities and believed to apply uniquely to an individual

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Social psychology shifts

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social psych alternates between periods of stability and paradigm shifts

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paradigm

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a new way of looking at the world + new theories/explanations

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falsifiability

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hypothesis can be proven wrong

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systematic investigation

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e.g. experimental studies

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replicability

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when repeated, studies will have same results

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anecdotal evidence

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stories/causal observations
- con: unreliable
- pro: can inspire more systematic investigation

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parsimony

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explanation uses the fewest assumptions

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observational research

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naturalistic: existing differences between groups through observation

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solutions to experimenter bias

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blind studies (double blind, experimenter or participant blind)

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operational defintion

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how the variable is measured in the study

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memory is organized into…

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semantic networks
- based on context

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context based experiment

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scuba divers
- water and water/ land and land remembered best
- watering land remembered least

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state-dependent memory

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retrieval is superior when individual is in the same physiological or psychological state as they were during encoding memory (drunk rat in maze)

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verbatism

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remembering specific words; rote memorization

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gist

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general idea of something

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study on false memory

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given a list of words - remembered false words - only ones that were distractor words, not unrelated ones

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schemas

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collections of general knowledge about events, situations, people, objects, and actions

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schemas and word study - what was remembered?

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self reference words > semantic > phonemic > structural

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"I" as self-knower

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conscious subject as experiencer

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"Me" self as known

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conscious of what is experienced

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self concept

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what you know and believe about yourself

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The Social Me

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all your various social roles - higher self complexity = better

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Self esteem

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a subjective feeling we have about ourselves