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Psychology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Impulsive, unconscious and demands pleasure and satisfaction
    - - Conscious, rational. Balances the demands of the other two parts
    - - Concerned with right and wrong. contains our ideal self, learnt through identification with our parents
- - - - Libido = Pleasure instinct
      - Focused on the mouth
      - Pleasure is gained from biting, sucking and chewing
      - Major life events
        
        Breast feeding and weaning from milk to solid foods
      - Problems can lead to fixation
        
        Overindulgence
        
        Someone who is needy, gullible and optimistic.
        
        Too much exposure
        
        Frustration
        
        May become pessimistic, jealous, smokes and bites nails
        
        Not enough exposure
      - ID (innate drives) part of personality is present (0-1 years of age)
    - - Libido is focused on the anus
      - Potty training. If conflict occurs during potty training this can affect adult personality
      - Fixations
        
        Anal retention
        
        Rarely uses potty and retains excrement
        
        Overly tidy
        
        Anal expulsion
        
        Uses potty too much
        
        Reckless and messy
      - Ego starts to develop (1-3 years of age)
    - - Super-ego starts to develop (3-6 years of age)
      - Libido is focused on the genitals
      - Major life event
        
        Oedipus Complex (boys only)
        
        Feels sexually attracted to mother
        
        Sees father as a love rival - wishes to kill father, causes guilt
        
        To resolve this the boy identifies (sees himself like his father and takes on his behavior and values) to reduce guilt
        
        Identification= development of superego
        
        Electra Complex (girls only)
        
        Girls develop 'penis envy' - an envy for what the boys have
        
        Blame their mother for this
        
        Father becomes their love object
        
        Girl swaps 'penis envy' for a wish to have children
        
        Identification with mother = revolves conflict towards mother
        
        Development of superego (this superego is weaker than a males)
      - Fixation
        
        Narcissistic and have difficulty maintaining and building relationships with other people
    - - 6-12 years of age
      - Libido is dormant
      - Children spend time developing non-sexual activities e.g. school and friendships
      - No fixation
    - - Puberty onwards
      - Libido is focused on genitals
      - Explore sexual relationships with others
      - If child has passed through previous stages with no fixations then they will be able to build normal relationships with people of the opposite sex
- - - - Illogical, ruled by pleasure seeking
      - Determines much of our behaviour
      - Unconscious drives and conflicts
      - Ego defence mechanisms
        
        Psychological strategies used as protection from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts and feelings
        
        These keep disturbing or threatening material from coming up from the unconscious into conscious awareness
        
        Example- Repression
        
        Involves banishing painful memories, such as childhood memories from psychosexual stages, into the unconscious so they are effectively forgotten
        
        However, unconsciously, they may still affect our emotions and behaviour