Psych 101

psyche—The Greek word for “spirit, soul, and breath”

logia—The Greek word for “the study of something”

Freud believed that, in a truly healthy person, the ego would be stronger than the id and superego so that it could consider the reality of the situation, while both meeting the needs of the id and making sure the superego was not disturbed. In the case of the superego being strongest, a person will be guided by very strict morals, and if the id is strongest, a person will seek pleasure over morality and could end up causing great harm (rape, for example, is when one chooses pleasure-seeking over morality, and is a sign of a strong id).

when a child thinks twice about doing something inappropriate because he understands the negative outcome that will occur, this is the ego

In 1913, Carl Jung coined the term the “Electra complex,”

If parents were too lenient

The movement of the fist (the conditioned stimulus) became associated with the unconditioned stimulus (the sound), and made you flinch (the conditioned response).

1901’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, where he theorized that slips of the tongue—later known as Freudian slips—were actually meaningful comments revealed by the “dynamic unconscious”

emotions, thought processes, dreams, memories, perception, personality, illness, and treatment.

Psychology is the study of mental and behavioral processes.