PSYCH NOTES
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN: PERSONALITY
Personality: The sum total of all the ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that are typical for the
person and makes that person di erent from all other individuals.
The rst personality theorist was Sigmound Frued
- Austrian
- 1836-1939
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Your personality is formed within the rst six years of your life.
- A core belief of freud: much of our thinking, feelings, and behavior is determined by events
that occurs earlier in our life.
THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY
- The Id: made up of inherited biological instincts and urges present at birth. Its self-serving,
irrational, and impulsive.
- Within the Id, there are two basic innate drives: sex and aggression
- Sex: pleasure, Aggression: the avoidance of pain
- Always seeking pleasure
- Wants immediate grati cation
- Conclusions
- The id operates at the unconscious level
- Its directed by the pleasure principle.
- The id is the source of personality
- The energy of the personality comes from the libido (Used di erently in his day)
The EGO. : executive
- “the ego directs the personality by matching the desires of the Id with external reality.”
- The ego functions at the conscious level and is driven by the reality principle.
The SUPER EGO: develops out of ego’s experience with social reality and the rules laid down
by parental authority
- acts as a judge or censor for the thoughts and actions of the ego
- Set of moral inhibitions
- Conscience
- Ego ideal: all behaviors one’s parents approved or rewarded
- Its the standard of perfect conduct.
Levels of consciousness
Unconscious: repressed memories and emotions as well as the instinctual drives of the Id.
- although the level of awareness are unconscious thoughts, feelings, or impulses, that may
seep into behavior, in disguised or symbolized forms
- Consciousness: everything we are aware of at any given moment.
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN: PERSONALITY
Personality: The sum total of all the ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that are typical for the
person and makes that person di erent from all other individuals.
The rst personality theorist was Sigmound Frued
- Austrian
- 1836-1939
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Your personality is formed within the rst six years of your life.
- A core belief of freud: much of our thinking, feelings, and behavior is determined by events
that occurs earlier in our life.
THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY
- The Id: made up of inherited biological instincts and urges present at birth. Its self-serving,
irrational, and impulsive.
- Within the Id, there are two basic innate drives: sex and aggression
- Sex: pleasure, Aggression: the avoidance of pain
- Always seeking pleasure
- Wants immediate grati cation
- Conclusions
- The id operates at the unconscious level
- Its directed by the pleasure principle.
- The id is the source of personality
- The energy of the personality comes from the libido (Used di erently in his day)
The EGO. : executive
- “the ego directs the personality by matching the desires of the Id with external reality.”
- The ego functions at the conscious level and is driven by the reality principle.
The SUPER EGO: develops out of ego’s experience with social reality and the rules laid down
by parental authority
- acts as a judge or censor for the thoughts and actions of the ego
- Set of moral inhibitions
- Conscience
- Ego ideal: all behaviors one’s parents approved or rewarded
- Its the standard of perfect conduct.
Levels of consciousness
Unconscious: repressed memories and emotions as well as the instinctual drives of the Id.
- although the level of awareness are unconscious thoughts, feelings, or impulses, that may
seep into behavior, in disguised or symbolized forms
- Consciousness: everything we are aware of at any given moment.
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