Chapter 3 Psychology

Primitive psych force hidden in the unconscious.
pleasure principle.
represents basic needs & drives which other personality factors are built.
basic instinct-hunger, thirst, sex,
main source of energy for personality development

Controls the personal thinking and acts as the coordinator of personality.
rational component of the mind.

Ego evaluates consequences & determines course of action in a rational manner.

Consist of traditional values & morales of society.
what is right and wrong.

Energy of the iD biological instinct.

Unconscious attempt to adjust to conditions that are painful.

To make up for feelings of inferiority in the area of weakness.

Mechanism which unacceptable desires, feelings, memories, and thoughts, are excluded from consciousness by being sent deep into unconscious.

Mechanism where consciously unacceptable instinctual demands are channeled into acceptable forms of gradification.

Mechanism through which a person escapes psychic pain associated with reality by unconsciously rejecting reality.

Mechanism where a person takes on the attitudes, behaviors, or personality of another person whom he or she idealized.

Blocking out threatening impulses or feelings by acting out an opposite behavior

Mechanism that involves a person falling back to earlier phase of development in which he felt secure.

Mechanism which one person unconsciously attributes his or her unacceptable ideas or impulses to another.

Mechanism which an individual tries to justify their behavior.