Psychology Notes

What does it mean to be [human]?

“The unexamined life is not worth living” - Socrates

Psychoanalysis = Dynamic Psychology (Conjecture)

Sigmund Freud pioneered psychoanalysis

Neurotic = deep subtle anxiety

\n Neurosis = problem with part of a person’s personality

Sublimation = substitute (catholic mass)

Electra Complex = Daughter marries father’s likeness

Oedipal Complex = Son marries mother’s likeness

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

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

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

Confounding Variable - influences both independent and independent variable

Classical Conditioning  - refers to natural reflexes

Operant Conditioning - consequence and reward system

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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