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Week 2 Flashcards

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What is definition of personality

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The word personality derives from the Latin persona meaning mask

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Defining personality

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There is consensus that the term personality describes a psychological construct

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What is aim of studying personality

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seeking to explain the motivational basis of behaviour and answer questions. The goal is to understand the basic nature of human beings

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Evaluating the theories

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description-identify behaviour
explanation-understand behaviour
empirical validity- shown to be valid
testable concepts-can be measured
comprehensiveness-wide variety of behaviour
parsimony-all concepts are necessary
heuristic value-stimulate interest
applied value-practical usefulness

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian neuro-physiologist
Neurology and hypnosis. Freud’s theory is a social theory of everything. Covers of meaning of dreams, jokes, humour and more

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Theoretical context

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Freud was not convinced by the prevailing, rational model of human behaviour. He thought that the unconscious was far more powerful than previously thought
The unconscious-> the preconscious mind-> the conscious mind

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Theoretical context

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Manifest dream content (what is recalled), Latent dream content (requires skilled interpretation)
Primary process thinking: irrational mental activity making the logically impossible possible-pleasure principle
secondary process thinking: rational logical, organised, conscious and pre-conscious. reality principle

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What is motivation:

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what drives human behaviour- primary urges e.g. hunger and sexuality

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What is Libido

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born with fixed amount of mental energy which will later become adult sexual drives

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What is life preserving drives

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hunger and pain

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What is death instinct

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self destructive instincts

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What are the theoretical models

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The Topographic model
the structural model
the psychosexual model

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What is the topographic model

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layers of mental life
Conscious (tip of the iceberg)
the preconscious- memories, plans, wishes, ideas
the unconscious- mental contents and processes that cannot be made conscious -we pay attention to objects

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What is the ID

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instinctual drives powered by a reservoir of instinctual psychic energy. Source of survival drives, sexual drives and aggressive drives. Only ID is present in infants.
Derives from pleasure principle. Delayed gratification: if you wait patiently your needs will be met. Immediate gratification: I want it all now

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What is the EGO

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Through development, libido energy transfers into ego. Executive parts of personality which regulates behaviour and channels it in a particular direction in accordance with the external environment. Follow the reality principle and becomes the mediator between child and external world.

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What is the superego

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Conscience of the child and helps make judgements about what is right or wrong. Comprised of internalised moral values and parental attitudes. Is the opposition of the ID

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What is the psychosexual model

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Children pass though a series of psychosexual stages during which their pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct pleasure-sensitive areas of the body

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What is the Oral stage

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Mouth is the focus of pleasure-seeking activity sucking, mouthing objects-deriving pleasure even without food
Fixation can lead to
Over-indulged as a child- oral receptive personality
Under-indulged as a child- oral aggressive personality

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What is anal stage

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the focus of pleasure is the anal region often during potty training
Fixation- anally expulsive personality- untidy disorganised and disregard accepted rules
Anal retentive personality- orderly, stingy and stubborn with tendency to hoard things

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what is Phallic stage

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Genital organs are focus of pleasure seeking behaviour. Exploration of own bodies. Fixation- phallic personality-boastful, narcissistic and vain

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What is Oedipus complex

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Happens during Phallic stage in which a boy becomes aware of his mother as a sexual object and feels hostility towards his father
Castration anxiety- sees father as powerful, threating figure
This ends successfully when the boy goes through identification with his father

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What is Electra complex

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Girl wishes to possess selfishly her father. Penis envy- equivalent of castration anxiety. Ends successively when she goes through identification with mother however this cant be fully complete as the girl doesn’t have a penis

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What is latency stage

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Characterised by low levels of sexual/romantic interest. Dormant sexual feelings are repressed or displaced. Fixation leads to like of relationships

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What is the latency stage

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Changes in the body reawaken the sexual energy or libido. Usually leads to normal adult sexual psychological development

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Evaluation for theory

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Description- cons: few cases, didn’t annotate his case studies, based his theories on neurotic individuals. Pros: addressed the complexities of human behaviour, opened doors for future research and debates on personality

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Evaluation on explaination

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Cons- some vagueness on what is exactly needed for normal development. Pros: good face validity

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evaluations for empirical validity and testable concepts

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Cons- large areas of Freud’s work remain untested and little attempts in recent psychology to do so, weak or no evidence for Oedipus and Electra complex
Pros- supports for some of the concepts despite methodological difficulties of the studies

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evaluations of comprehensiveness

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Pros- very comprehensive including wealth of topics

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Evaluations of Parsimony

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cons- does not meet parsimony criteria in terms of the motivational drives.
Pros- fairly parsimonious with the rest

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Evaluation of applied value

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pros huge advantages in treatment and humane treatment of patients
Psychoanalysis shown to be affective with certain disorders

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Evaluation of Heuristic value

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Enormous impact which still provokes debate 100 years later, Influenced treatment and motivated others to develop alternative approaches

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Who is Carl Jung

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Agreed with Freud however saw that there was a collective unconscious. Believed with Archetypes which where universal thoughts and patterns

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Who is Alfred Adler

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argued role of children’s feelings of inferiority and need compensate stiving for superiority. Social interest and desire to contribute to society. Argued that birth order contributes significantly to individual development

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Who is Karen Horney

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Argued that environmental forces have a greater role in mental life and challenged view on female sexuallity

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