Unit 10:

Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

• Structure of personality
• Id - Pleasure principle
• Ego - Reality principle
• Superego - Morality
• Levels of awareness
• Conscious
• Unconscious
• Preconscious
Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
• Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
• Conflict
• Sex and Aggression
• Suppressed most often
• Anxiety
• Caused by a fear the id or superego will overtake you
• Defense Mechanisms
• Way to prevent us from feeling guilt or anxiety
Sublimination – finding a socially appropriate outlet for id’s desires.
ex: Becoming an MMA fighter to release aggression
Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
• Fixation-Excessive gratification or frustration
• Overemphasis on psychosexual needs during fixated stage
• Psychosexual stages
1. Oral
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency
5. Genital
Neo-Freudians
Alfred Adler - inferiority complex
Karen Horney – feministic view of Freud’s ideas
Carl Jung – collective unconscious
Assessing Unconscious
Processes
• Projective Test – one in which the user projects
their ideas onto an ambiguous stimuli
• Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
• Rorschach Inkblot Test
Humanistic Theories
• Abraham Maslow
• Self-actualization
• Focused one people’s ability to
strive for success
• Carl Rogers
• When a person is offered
genuineness, acceptance, and
empathy they’ll flourish.
• Client centered therapy
• Unconditional positive regard
• Self-concept
Trait Theory
–Describing rather than explaining
–Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
– Not scientifically useful (yet)

–Factor Analysis – stats for correlation

–Personality Inventories
–MMPI
The Big Five
Social Gognitive Theory
• Reciprocal Determinism
• Interaction of internal, behavioral, and environmental influences on
personality
• Optimism v Pessimism
• Balance is necessary
• Blindness to our incompetence
• Takes competence to recognize
competence
Exploring the Self
• Spotlight effect – College students gave an estimation that
half would notice a Barry Manilow tee shirt when only 25%
did. Take away point? People don’t notice you as much as
you think they do.
• Self-serving bias – inability to see ourselves as average
• Narcissism – excessive self love and absorption
• Defensive self esteem
• Completely unrelated photo of Kim and Kanye…