13.1-13.3 Flashcards

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– the sum total of who a person
is—their attitudes and reactions, both physical and
emotional.

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PERSONALITY

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The unique way in which each individual
thinks, acts, and feels throughout life.

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PERSONALITY

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– the value judgment
made about a person’s moral or
ethical behavior.

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Character

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– the biologically
innate and enduring characteristics
with which each person is born.

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Temperament

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is an area of psychology in
which there are several ways to explain the
characteristic behavior of human beings

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Personality

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Every adult personality is a combination
of temperaments and __ of
family, culture, and the time during which
they grew up.

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personal history

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The ___ had its beginnings in the work of Sigmund Freud and
still exists today. It focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development
of personality. This perspective is also heavily focused on biological causes of personality
differences

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psychodynamic perspective

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This approach focuses on the effect of the environment on behavior and, as
addressed here, includes aspects of social cognitive theory in that, interactions with
others and personal thought processes also influence learning and personality

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behavioral perspective

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The ___first arose as a reaction against the psychoanalytic and
behaviorist perspectives and focuses on the role of each person’s conscious life experiences
and choices in personality development.

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humanistic perspective

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The ___ differs from the other three in its basic goals: The psychodynamic,
behaviorist, and humanistic perspectives all seek to explain the process that
causes personality to form into its unique characteristics, whereas trait theorists
are more concerned with the end result—the characteristics themselves.

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trait perspective

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Freud believed that the mind was divided
into three parts: the __

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preconscious,
conscious, and unconscious.

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– level of the mind in
which one’s current awareness
exists.

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Conscious

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– level of the
mind containing memories, events,
and information of which one can
become easily aware.

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Preconscious Mind

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– level of the
mind that remains hidden at all
times, surfacing only in symbolic
forms in dreams

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Unconscious Mind

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Freud believed that the
__
was the most important determinant of
human behavior and personality

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unconscious mind

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ID – a Latin word that means
__

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“it.”

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An unconscious, pleasure-seeking,
amoral part of the personality that
exists at birth, containing all of the
basic biological drives

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ID

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– the need to seek
out pleasurable sensations.

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Pleasure Drive

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– the desire for
immediate gratification of needs
with no regard for the
consequences.

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Pleasure Principle

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If it feels good, do it.

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ID

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EGO – a Latin word that means

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“I.”

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Part of the personality that
develops out of a need to deal with
reality.

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EGO

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Mostly conscious and is far more
rational, logical, and cunning than
the id.

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EGO

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– the satisfaction
of the demands of the id only when
negative consequences will not
result.

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Reality Principle

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If it feels good, do it, but only if you can get away with it.
EGO
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SUPEREGO – a Latin word that means
“over the self.”
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Part of the personality that acts as a moral center.
SUPEREGO
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The superego contains the __, which is the part of the personality that makes people feel guilt or moral anxiety.
conscience
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– unconscious distortions of a person’s perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety.
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS
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These defense mechanisms were mainly outlined and studied by Freud’s daughter,
Anna Freud
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: refusal to recognize or acknowledge a threatening situation
Denial
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: “pushing” threatening or conflicting events or situations out of conscious memory
repression
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: making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior.
rationalization
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: placing one’s own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts belonged to them and not to oneself
Projection
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forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of one’s threatening or unacceptable actual thoughts.
reaction formation:
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: expressing feelings that would be threatening if directed at the real target onto a less threatening substitute target.
Displacement
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: falling back on childlike patterns as a way of coping with stressful situations.
regression
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: trying to become like someone else to deal with one’s anxiety.
Identification
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trying to make up for areas in which a deficit is perceived by becoming superior in some other area.
Compensation (substitution):
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– the five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child.
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGE
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At each stage, a different ____ or area of the body that produces pleasurable feelings, becomes important and can become a source of conflicts.
erogenous zone,
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Conflicts that are not fully resolved can result in __
fixation
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__ – disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behavior associated with that earlier stage.
Fixation
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ORAL STAGE (First 18 Months) – the erogenous zone is the.
mouth
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that occurs too soon or too late can result in too little or too much satisfaction of the child’s oral needs.
Weaning
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Conflict in this stage can result in overeating, drinking too much, talking too much, nail biting, and a tendency to be either too optimistic or too pessimistic
ORAL STAGE (First 18 Months)
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ANAL STAGE (18 to 36 Months) – as the child becomes a toddler, Freud believed that the erogenous zone moves from the mouth to the __
anus
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_becomes the source of conflict in this psychosexual stage.
Toilet training
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Fixation in the anal stage, from toilet training that is too harsh, can take one of two forms:
Anal Expulsive Personality Anal Retentive Personality
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someone who sees messiness as a statement of personal control.
Anal Expulsive Personality –
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someone stingy, stubborn, and excessively neat
Anal Retentive Personality –
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PHALLIC STAGE (3 to 6 Years) – the erogenous zone shifts to the __ where the child first begins to discover sexual feelings.
genitals
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Most children have already engaged in perfectly normal self-stimulation of the genitals, or __.
masturbation
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This awakening of __ and interest in the genitals.
sexual curiosity
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Phallic comes from the Greek word __
Phallos, which means “penis.”
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men’s fear of losing the penis_
Castration Anxiety
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girl experience anxiety at not having a penis.
Penis Envy
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__– men feel the need to compensate for their lack of child-bearing ability.
Womb Envy
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People who are fixated in this stage will often exhibit promiscuous sexual behavior and be very vain.
PHALLIC STAGE (3 to 6 Years)
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Men with this fixation may be “mama’s boys” who never quite grow up, and women with this fixation may look for much older father figures to marry.
PHALLIC STAGE (3 to 6 Years)
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– situation wherein a male child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent.
OEDIPUS COMPLEX
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Female children develop an
Electra Complex.
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From age 6 to the onset of puberty, children will remain in this stage of hidden, or latent, sexual feelings, so this stage is called
latency
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– occurs during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways.
LATENCY STAGE (6 Years to Puberty)
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Age at which girls and boys think the opposite sex is pretty awful.
LATENCY STAGE (6 Years to Puberty)
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children grow and develop intellectually, physically, and socially but not sexually.
LATENCY STAGE (6 Years to Puberty)
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stage where sexual urges are allowed back into consciousness and the individual moves toward adult social and sexual behavior.
GENITAL STAGE (Puberty On) –