Psychosocial Theories Lesson 1 Flashcards
Who produced the stress and injury model
Williams & Andersen
Its job is to balance the agressive and pleasure seeking drives
ego
In this theory, each levels of mental life coincides with its privinces of the mind
Freud’s Psychoanalytic processes
Ego operates at what level
conscious
Superego operates at what level
preconscious
ID operates at what level
unconscious
executive mediating between ID impulses and SUPEREGO inhibitions
ego
rational and testing reality
ego
things we are aware of
ego
compromise
ego
ideals and morals
superego
striving for perfection
superego
incorporated from parents
superego
becoming a person’s conscience
superego
opposite of id
superego
something we are aware of, but not too much
superego
basic impulses
id
seeking immediate gratification
id
irrational and impulsive
id
id is always negative. true or false
false
when the scale is out of balance, it is the responsibility of what to mediate the conflict
ego
weak ego leads to
anxiety
to protect ego from anxiety, we use
defense mechanisms
the time when our EGO does not meet demands of reality
ego defense mechanism