Conscious mental processes are those that we are aware of. They tend to be goal-directed and rational. Preconscious mental processes are those that are just outside our conscious thinking, but can become conscious at any time. Unconscious mental processes are irrational and kept out of our consciousness through repression because they might cause emotional distress. 2.What is the Five Factor Model? List the five factors. Answer: The Big Fivefactors are overarching personality types. The five factors are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. 3.What is Freud’s structural model? What are the parts of this model? Answer: The structural model described a conflict of a person’s desires and real world constraints. The id is the part of us that is untamed and driven by impulse and instinct. To balance out the id, the superego is our conscience or the place of our ideals and morals. The
