Believed that the mind is responsible for both conscious and unconscious decisions based on drives and forces.
Sigmund Freud
Believed people are “simply actors in the drama of [their] own minds, pushed by desire, pulled by coincidence. Underneath the surface, our personalities represent the power struggle going on deep within us
Sigmund Freud
What was Sigmund Freud’s view of human nature?
Deterministic
Contains all the feeling, urges or instinct that are beyond our awareness but it affects our expression, feeling, action
(E.g. Slip of tongue, dreams, wishes)
Unconscious
Facts stored in a part of the brain, which are not conscious but are
available for possible use in the future (E.g. A person will never think of her home address at that moment but when her friend ask for it, she can easily recall it)
Preconscious
Only level of mental life that is directly available to us
Conscious
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
Sigmund Freud
Infants are born with ______ intact to gain pleasure, avoid pain
Id
Is the part of the mind, which holds all of human’s most basic and primal instincts.
Id
It is the impulsive, unconscious part of the mind that is based on desire to seek immediate satisfaction.
Id
severe mental disorders that cause abnormal thinking and perceptions. People with psychoses lose touch with reality
Psychotic disorders
seeing things that are not actually there
Hallucinations
false beliefs, such as thinking that someone is plotting against you or that the TV is sending you secret messages.
Delusions
Three parts of the personality
Id, Ego, Superego
IMPORTANCE OF THE ID FOR SURVIVAL
described as the “conscience” or the “moral compass.”
Superego
when an individual feels guilt or shame after telling a lie because
it goes against their internalized values of honesty and integrity
Superego
considered to be the consciousness of a person’s personality and can override the drives from the id
Superego
The balance between Id and Superego
Ego
takes into account ethical and cultural ideals in order
to balance out the desires originating in the id
Ego
Ego
helps individuals make rational and practical decisions that consider the consequences of their actions.
Ego
Freud compared the id and the ego to a horse and a rider where the _____ is compared to the horse, which is directed and controlled by the ______ as the rider
Id is the horse, the Ego is the rider