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Father of Psychoanalysis - austrian neurologist
Sigmund freud
3 major parts of Psychoanalytic Theory
1.Structure of Personality (id,ego,super ego)
2.Psychosexual Development (OA PA.LA.GE.) (oral,anal phalic,latency,genital)
3.Defense Mechanism - defend itself against the anxiety from everyday life.
Defense Mechanism
1.Denial - Refusing
2.Repression - blocking unwanted thoughts or unconscious denial the causes anxiety
3.Introjection - ex. adapting positive qualities of a movie star to a persons ego.
4.Fixation - portion of libido remains invested in one of the psychosexual stages because of frustration and gratification.
5.Catharsis - cleansing
6.Paranoia - A powerful delusions of jealousy
7. Displacement - shifting id impulses
8.Projection - attributing a disturbing impulses to someone else
9.Sublimation - expressed such as art, music and literature
10.Regression - regret
warns a person against impending danger
Anxiety
3 types of anxiety
1.Neurotic anxiety - apprehension about an unknown danger.
2.Moral anxiety - conflict between ego and super ego
3.Realistic anxiety - involving a possible danger
apprehension about an unknown danger.
Neurotic anxiety
conflict between ego and super ego
Moral anxiety
3.involving a possible danger
Realistic anxiety
(freud)Psychosexual Development (OA PA.LA.GE.)
(oral,anal phalic,latency,genital)
defend itself against the anxiety from everyday life.
Defense Mechanism
From the Latin word PERSONA, meaning theatrical masks worn by Roman actors in Greek dramas
- Pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that gave both individuality and
consistency to a person’s behavior.
Personality
- a distinguishing quality or characteristic
Traits
Unique qualities of an individual
Characteristics
- Set of related assumptions.
- They are not proven facts unless proven to be true
- Is testable
Theory
- Means love of wisdom
Philosophy
Theories can rely on ; they are closely tied to empirically gathered data.
Speculations
Nature of knowledge
- Theories relates closely to this branch of philosophy because it is a tool researcher use in their pursuit for
knowledge
Epistemology
Branch of study concerned with observations and classification of data with verifications of general laws
through testing hypothesis
Science
An educated guess or prediction specific enough for it’s validity to be tested by through scientific method
Hypothesis
Going from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Known as the classification of things according to their natural relationships
Taxonomy
Refers to whether the person’s behavior are determined by forces over which they have no control, or when
people can choose by they want to be.
DETERMINATION VS FREE CHOICE
Whether people doomed to live miserable lives, or the can choose to change themselves psychology to live
with a happy one
PESSIMISM VS OPTIMISM
holds the behavior of past experiences, whereas teleology is the explanation of behavior in future
goals
CAUSALITY VS. TELEOLOGY