Chapter 13 Flashcards
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Personality
And individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Free association
In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring Deencond just in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to my no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Psychoanalysis
Rights. Personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose a unconscious tensions.
Unconscious
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
id
Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. the id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
Ego
The largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying that id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
Super ego
The part of personality that according to Freud, a present internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
Psychosexual stages
The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
Oedipus complex
According to Freud, a boy sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.
Identification
The process by which, according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
Defense mechanisms
In psychoanalytical theory the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Repression
In psychoanalytical theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
Regression
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
Reaction formation
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the eagle unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express their feelings that are the offset of anxiety arousing unconscious feelings.
Projection
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
Rationalization
Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions.
Displacement
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.
Denial
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