DOC PREVIEW
Pitt PSY 0160 - Exploring the Unconscious
Type Lecture Note
Pages 5

This preview shows page 1-2 out of 5 pages.

Save
View full document
View full document
Premium Document
Do you want full access? Go Premium and unlock all 5 pages.
Access to all documents
Download any document
Ad free experience
View full document
Premium Document
Do you want full access? Go Premium and unlock all 5 pages.
Access to all documents
Download any document
Ad free experience
Premium Document
Do you want full access? Go Premium and unlock all 5 pages.
Access to all documents
Download any document
Ad free experience

Unformatted text preview:

Personality Psychology Lecture 4Outline of Last Lecture Sigmund Freud View of humans Focus on sexual and aggressive urges Structure of the mind Psychosexual stagesFreud theory influence: Brucke Favor biology instead of “vitalism”Instincts/Drives Life instinct=libido Death instinct=thanatosInfluences on Freud: Charcot Salpetriere Women’s Asylum Hypnosis Suggestibility Unconscious mind Free associationMind as Energy System Energy in mind can be blocked from expression Homeostatic goalInfluences on Freud: Breuer Free association under hypnosis Catharsis  Anna OFreud historyThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Psychoanalysis 1900: Interpretation of dreams 1901: Psychopathology of Everyday lifeIceberg model of mind Freudian slipsExploring the Unconscious Free association Dream analysis Transference Outline of Current Lecture Exploring the Unconscious: Projective testso Rorschach inkblot testo Thematic Apperception TestModel of the Mind: Structural components Id Superego Ego Anxiety Defense Mechanisms Denial  Repression Projection Rationalization Sublimation Displacement Isolation Reaction formation Current LectureExploring the Unconscious continued: Projective tests—assessment tools used by psychoanalytic researchers/therapistso Person taking test is unconsciously projecting unconscious material on test items they’represented witho Test items evoke expression of unconscious materialo Test taker presented with ambiguous stimuli and asked to explain what they see—meantto tap into unconscious mindo Rorschach Inkblot test—Swiss psychiatrist came up with 10 inkblots Colored blots—meant to draw on emotional content Test taker writes down what they see, afterwards the analyst asks test taker to explain how they see it *pay attention to patterns in what the test takers seeing—can tell about personspersonality, psychopathology Precept—what person sees, the more typical the identification of whats being seen is the less likely they have a disorder (if see pattern of violent/sexual things probably have disorder) Valid IF believe in concept of unconscious and is important part of mind, questionable validity and reliabilityo Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)—series of cards with a drawing, present cards 1 at a time and ask them whats happening in the picture and what happened just before this and what happens next Also a CAT for children based on idea that this will give information on what is in persons unconscious Cards tend to draw on sexual/aggressive content Person is really talking about themselves when they explain the stories—project aspects of themselves into what they say about whats happening in the cardsModel of Mind: Structural components (1923 Freud) Id (unconscious)—present at birtho Selfish, impulsive, pleasure loving, avoids pain, not moral with no filterso Pleasure principle—motivated by satisfying desires Seeks gratification through action or fantasieso Primary process thinking—thinking without logical rules, not anchored in reality but anchored in pleasure principle  Dreams, fantasies  Id will develop dream to partially satisfy it if desire cant be attained  Superego (mix of preconscious, conscious, unconscious)—conscience, develops in young childhoodo Sense of right and wrongo Internal representation of external social morals and rules Ethical standardso Functions to control behavior in accordance with ruleso Partially function of environment that influenceso *opposite of ID, sometimes they clasho *guilt feelings from superego because tells you what shouldn’t do Ego (part conscious and unconscious)—develops in childhood o Operates on reality principle Recognizes you cant do everything you want to do all the timeo Satisfy ID desires and superego demands—tension that exists when demands are in opposition (anxiety) Devil vs angel on shoulder Process causes anxietyo Secondary process thinking—problem solving to be able to obtain some level of satisfaction taking reality into account of when and how to satisfy a desire/urge Done with awareness/consciousness, intended actionso Is a restrainero *takes energy to inhibit a desire, mind as energy system All structures interact with each otherAnxiety Id+superego+reality of situation Balancing all of this leads to anxiety which may cause symptoms:o Hysteria, depression, etc Symptoms caused by ego trying to do its job but ego isn’t well developed enough or isn’t doing its job well or energy of mind is being used up by past trauma so ego doesn’t have enough mental energy to work withDefense Mechanisms Tool ego uses to balance id, superego, and reality Always unconscious Ways to distort reality and exclude feelings from awareness, reduces anxiety Necessary, but overuse of a mechanism is bad Denial—refuse to believe/acknowledge something threateningo Healthy if short lived, denying reality, helpful coping strategy  Repression—unconsciously pushing feelings/thoughts out of awarenesso (suppression=consciously doing it) Projection—projecting personally unacceptable feelings onto someone else Rationalization—acknowledge behavior/feelings but reinterpret it to hide our true motivations to make feelings/behavior more acceptable to ourselves Sublimation—take sexual/aggressive urges and channel them into something more socially acceptable, not aware that youre doing ito Instead of sex go for a run to let out aggressive energyo Channel energy you cant unconsciously want to act on into something else Displacement—feel angry at someone but cant express your anger at that person so take it out on someone elseo Ex. Cant lash out at your boss at work so go home and yell at someone when at home Isolation—mentally isolate something threatening/anxiety producing by separating feelings fromour thinkingo Intellectualization If someone you know has cancer and you research it thoroughly and then when you talk about it only talk about all the facts you learned about ito Undoing—mentally try to undo what we cant tolerate that we did/happened “if only I would have done ___ so ____ wouldn’t have happened” Reaction formation—what person does is the opposite


View Full Document
Download Exploring the Unconscious
Our administrator received your request to download this document. We will send you the file to your email shortly.
Loading Unlocking...
Login

Join to view Exploring the Unconscious and access 3M+ class-specific study document.

or
We will never post anything without your permission.
Don't have an account?
Sign Up

Join to view Exploring the Unconscious 2 2 and access 3M+ class-specific study document.

or

By creating an account you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms Of Use

Already a member?