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Psychoanalytic perspective

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Freud; How personalities are determined by what happens in childhood

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Id

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All basic instincts

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Pleasure Principle

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Demands immediate, unrestrained gratification

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Ego

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Decision maker

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Reality Principle

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Satisfy needs without getting in trouble

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Superego

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Moral conscience

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Personality Development (Freud)

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Psychosexual stages

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Libido

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Free-flowing sexual energy

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Fixation

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Stuck at a stage

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Oral stage

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Birth-18 months; mouth

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Anal stage

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18 months- 3 years; potty training

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Anal retentive

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Over gratified at anal stage; clean, organized

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Anal expulsive

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Under gratified at anal stage; slob, messy

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Phallic stage

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3-6 years; Symbolically focussed on genitals

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Oedipus complex

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Boys want mom, castration anxiety, scared of dad, latch onto dad since dad can have mom

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Electra complex

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Boys have something girls do not, want it, want dad, mom had dad, latches onto dad

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Latent stage

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6-12 years; libido diffused

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Genital stage

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12+; sexual maturity

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Defensive mechanisms

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Ego twists reality to make it less threatening

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Repression

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Things that cause anxiety are pushed into the unconscious

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Regression

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Return to behaviors which reduced anxiety at an earlier age

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Reaction formation

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Unacceptable impulse turned into the opposite

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Projection

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Anxiety causing feelings are projected onto someone else

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Rationalization

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Give explanations that aren’t the real reasons but are more acceptable

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Displacement
React to something that was not actually what caused the anxiety
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Sublimation
Take energy caused by anxiety and turn it into something useful or acceptable
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Assessing unconscious
Use projective tests
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Thematic Apperception Test
Show picture, they tell a story
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Rorschach test
Ink blots
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Why repression is false
Bad memories are remembered really well
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Why Unconscious is false
We aren't aware of a lot in out minds but its info processing
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Why Freud was unscientific
Can't empirically test it
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Neo-Freudians
Accept personality structure and huge unconscious, don't focus on sex and aggression
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Humanistic perspective
Humans are inherently good, studies average people
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Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Self actualization (accept ourselves, caring)
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Carl Rogers
Self concept is the core of our personality; growth-promoting climate
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Genuineness
Can disclose info and make connections
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Acceptance
Unconditional positive regard
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Empathy
Really listen and share in feelings
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Self esteem
Feelings of self worth
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Low self esteem
Critical and judgmental of others, depression, and anxiety
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Self-serving bias
We have the tendency to think more positively of ourselves than is warranted
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Evaluating humanism
Appealing but subjective and unscientific, individualistic
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Trait perspective
ID certain dimensions and traits of personality
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Big 5
Emotional stability; extraversion; Openness; Agreeableness; Conscientiousness
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Myers Briggs
4 dichotomies
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MMPI
ID clinical disorders; most widely used
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Social-cognitive perspective
Personalities are shaped by our environment
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Reciprocal determinism
Personalities shaped by situation, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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Problems with social-cognitive
Too much on situation, not enough on traits

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