Psychology Flashcards
Define collective behaviour
The way people act in crowds, society, etc.
Define psychology
The science of behaviour and mental processes
Define behaviour
Any action we can observe and record
What was sigmund freud’s theory about the mind?
Childhood events influence current behaviour.
Unconscious and conscious mind
Difference between conscious and pre conscious?
CON - Right now what you sense and think
PRECON - Available memory, can bring to mind memories easily
What is the unconscious mind
Thoughts that have been stored away that we cannot recall. Experiences that we put away
What were Freuds 3 personalities
ID
SUPEREGO
EGO
Define ID, Ego, and Superego
ID - Pleasure principle. Devil on shoulder
Ego - Balance, uses defense mechanisms and represses bad memories
Superego - Controls ID and impulses, angel on shoulder. Wants perfection
Psychological stages of development? 5
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
Pushing unacceptable desires down into the unconscious mind is called?
Repression
Define hysteria (AKA Conversion disorder)
Patients who display physical symptoms without having any obvious physical cause
The ego is in direct contact with …? (R)
Reality and makes logical decisions
Elfred Adler suggested…?
That we see people as wholes rather than parts (like Freud Suggested).
Carl Jung developed this theory
We have a psychic inheritance of memories passed down throughout generations
4 functional types of people?
thinking (reason)
feeling (emotions)
Intuition (perception)
sensation (five senses)
