Psyc 1000 Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I. Scientific Methoda. Basic Toolsb. Research Goals/TypesII. Research Methodsa. Case study Methodb. Surveyc. Naturalistic ObservationIII. Ethical GuidelinesOutline of Current Lecture I. TheoriesII. Developing PersonalityIII. Freud’s TheoryCurrent LectureClassic Perspectives on PersonalityPersonality: a person’s characteristic pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors persisting overtime and across situationIntroverted, agreeable/open, naïve, sensitive/reactive, neurotically/irritable, conscientious, contentedly/lethargicTheories- Psychodynamic- Psychoanalytic I. How children and their parents relate to one another’s personalityII. Sigmund Freaud: babies are born with no response to affecting othersa. First to examine how we interactb. Id-unconscious energyc. Ego- Tip of the iceberg. Most consciousd. Superego- Internalized Idealse. Twin Studiesf. Sexual impulsesThese 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.g. What is causing individuals to cause inner sicknesses ie prarlysis h. Developing psychoanalysis- understanding and therapyi. Physicianj. Explore how mental and physical symptoms could be caused by purely psychological factorsk. Believed that many powerful mental processes operate in the unconscious without our awarenessl. Insight grew into a theory of the structure of human personality and its developmentm. Name for his theory and his therapeutic technique: psychoanalysis giving free association saying one word and them giving another. Dream content- highly sexual or highly aggressiven. Free association: encourage the patient to speak whatever comes to mind (out ofthe unconscious level)o. Therapist then interprets any potential unconscious wishes hidden in the client’s hesitation, slips of the tongue, and dreamsp. The mind is mostly below the surface of conscious awareness.q. Personality develops from the efforts of our ego, our rational self to resolve tension between our id based in biological drives the superego, society’s rules and constraintsr. The unconscious in Freud’s view: a reservoir of thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, that are hidden from awareness because they feel unacceptables. Id does not take into account any others just that one persons want or needs. Evolving around otherst. Ego awareness of others mediates the id and superegou. Overinflated Superego overbearing and self righteous, guilt and shameIII. Developing personalitya. We start life with a personality made up of the id, striving impulsively to meet basic needsb. In a toddler, an ego develops a self that has thoughts, judgments, and memories following a reality principalIV. Freud’s Theory of Psychosexuala. Id is focuse on the needs of erogenous zones, sensitive areas of the bodyb. Fixate, never resolve how to manage the needs of that zones needs or overstimulation understimulation result in fixationV. Male Development Issuesa. Importance of first few years of lifeb. Freud believed that we are anxious about our unacceptable wishes and impulses and we repress this anxiety with the helop of:i. Regression: retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixatedii. Reaction formationiii. Projectioniv. Rationalizationv. Displacement: shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object of person.vi. Denial: refusing to believe or even perceive painful realitiesNeo-Freudian, Psychodynamic TheoristsPsychodynamic