Psychology Notes

What does it mean to be [human]?

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“The unexamined life is not worth living” - Socrates

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Psychoanalysis = Dynamic Psychology (Conjecture)

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Sigmund Freud pioneered psychoanalysis

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Neurotic = deep subtle anxiety

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Sublimation = substitute (catholic mass)

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Electra Complex = Daughter marries father’s likeness

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Oedipal Complex = Son marries mother’s likeness

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Projection - displacing feelings onto another person because of  issues with themselves

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Displacement - Projecting emotions on others who are not the source of the issue

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Behaviorism was born out of a dislike for Freud and based only on observable actions

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Confounding Variable - influences both independent and independent variable

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Classical Conditioning  - refers to natural reflexes

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Operant Conditioning - consequence and reward system

• Positive is adding something (not always good), and negative is removing something (not always bad)

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Language Acquisition Device - a part of the mind conditioned to learn language

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ID - “it”, the animal within us (what we are born with)

• Pleasure principle (the id wants to feel good)

Superego - Moral code (best of humanity)

Ego - satisfies the superego and id in a socially acceptable way

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Cathexes - the build-up of psychic energy

Anticathexes - the temporary release of psychic energy

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If you do not release the buildup of psychic energy you will develop Neurosis (a problem with part of your personality)

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Freuds States of Psychosexual (it's not because of unfulfilled sexual wishes) Development

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - becoming happy - in not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other

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Personality Types: Eros (life) & Thanatos (death)

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