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
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\ \ 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
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| AGE | STAGE | CHARACTERISTICS |
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| 0-1 | Oral | Pleasure from eating and vocalizing |
| 1-3 | Anal | Pleasure from retention or repulsion of feces |
| 3-5 | Phallic | Pleasure from touching genitals, Oedipal and Electra complexes |
| 6-11 | Latency | Identification with same-sex parent |
| 12-18 | Genital | Heterosexual attraction |
\ \ \ \ 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)
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