Psychology is the Science of Mind and Behaviour Chapter 11

A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world

The view that personality is primarily unconscious (beyond awareness) and develops in stages. Most psychoanalytic perspectives emphasize that early experiences with parents play a role in sculpting personality

Misstatements Freud believed to be revealed unconscious thoughts

Freud's approach to personality

Physical symptoms that have no physical cause

Had a multitude of causes in the unconscious

Consists of unconscious drives and is the individual's reservoir of psychic energy, has no contact with reality, works according to the pleasure principle (seeks pleasure, avoids pain)

Structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality, abides by reality principle (tries to bring the individual pleasure within the norms of society)

Harsh internal judge of our behavior (judges our morality), also only considers reality (considers if the id's impulses can be satisfied in acceptable moral terms)

Reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

The master defense mechanism; the ego pushes unacceptable impulses out of awareness, back into the unconscious mind

The ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one

The ego shifts feelings toward an unacceptable object to another, more acceptable object

The ego replaces an unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one

The ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems and faults to others