Personality 210 Psychology Notes (Part 7) Continuing Id, Ego, and Superego

Cathexis

Cathexis

________ is a term describing how one invests their energy in a activity or image.

Introjection

________ is a term used to describe how one "…attempts to access ones own internal psychological processes directly, perceptions, judgements, or states.

Psychic

________ (mental) energy continuously and gradually builds up and people only have so much available at one time for a given task.

superego

The ________ is the moral guide that passes on imperatives regarding appropriate or inappropriate actions and thoughts.

Reality principle

________ "…is a theory in psychoanalysis that defines it as representing the demands of the external world and requiring an individual to forgo instinctual demands for gratifications or to postpone it for an appropriate time ..

primary process

Cathecting an image is as good as cathecting an object, also known as ________.

Drives

________ are a biological need, and it can be psychologically represented by, for example, being dehydrated and feeling the intense need to drink water.

Secondary process

________ is a term used to describe the matching of an image of a tension- reducing object to a real object.

Id

But the ________ does not differentiate between images and objects.

superego

The ________ has two subsystems which are the ego ideal and the conscious.

The ego

________ evolves from the Id and harnesses some of its energy for its own use and the egos goal is to delay the discharge of the Ids tension.

Ego ideal

_________ presents rules for good behavior, standards for excellence, and forms from a parent’s approval of behaviors.

Psychic (mental) energy

________ is energy that gradually builds up and people only have so much available at one time for a given task.

The conscious

________ enforces the way that certain behaviors are bad and forms from a parent’s disapproval of undesired behaviors and punishment.