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Freud Vocab
Freud, Personality, Human
Behavior
Conscious
 Having an awareness of one's environment and one's
own existence, sensations, and thoughts
Unconscious
 Not knowing or perceiving
 Not aware
 Free from self-awaremess
Morals
 principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction
between right and wrong; ethical
Conscience
 The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's
conduct together with the urge to prefer right over
wrong:
 “Let your conscience be your guide”
Sigmund Freud
Human Behavior
 Born in Austria 1856.
He was a medical
doctor who specialized
in neurology.
 To Freud, much
of the mind is
unconscious
as opposed to
conscious.
 He believed that
even the smallest
behaviors have
special significance.
Each behavior has
an unconscious
reason for occurring.
 To Freud, the
unconscious
mind is the
key to all
human
behavior.
 Freud is known as a
psychoanalytic
theorist. These
people feel that we
have to look at why
they behave the
way they do instead
of just looking at their
actions.
 Sigmund Freud believed that personality has three
structures.
 These are the id, ego and superego.
 The id wants what it wants right now. It seeks pleasure
and avoids pain. This is also known as the pleasure
principle.
 The ego deals with reality. This is based on rationality,
reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. The
ego tries to make seeking individual pleasure conform
to society. This is known as the reality principle.
 The superego is the moral branch of personality. It
does not deal with reality, simply what is right or wrong.