Social Psychology 12/8/98
Id-Ego-Superego Interactions -- Conflict and Compromise.
Slips, Dreams, & Symbolic Symptoms.
Freud's beliefs about personality development and psychosexual stages
Comparing Freud's view of personality to humanistic and biological views of personality
Nature/Nurture one last time
Final Comments
Freudian Slips or "Parapraxes"
Dreams
Symbolic Symptoms
Personality is shaped during the first few years of life.
Personality is shaped by the resolution of a series of "psychosexual" conflicts.
Humanistic theorists view human nature as basically positive -- believe that if left alone people's natural tendencies are toward growth, maturity, development and altruism.
Term they use to describe this is:
self-actualization -- the tendency of individual's to fulfill, realize or actualize their potential
Define personality empirically.
Emphasize the roles of genes, traits, and temperament.
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Motivation |
Libido Instinctual Gratification |
Self-actualization, growth, maturity, creativity |
No unique motives |
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Structure |
Conscious, preconscious, unconscious Id, Ego, Superego |
Ideal and real self Perceived and objective experience of self |
Genes, Temperament, and Traits |
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Growth & Development
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Psychosexual stages Fixation and Regression
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No Stages Conditional vs. unconditional positive regard
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No Stages
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Overall
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Pessimistic Problems likely and multiple causes
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Optimistic Problems unlikely and due to singular cause (Incongruence)
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Neutral view of humanity Personal Change difficult
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