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Chapter 3 - Psychoanalytic Aspects of Personality Flashcards

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What does the psychoanalytic approach emphasize?

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Unconscious processes of the mind

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What is the unconscious?

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the portion of mind of which the person is not aware

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What are 3 analytic techniques to access the unconscious?

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hypnosis, free association, or dream analysis

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What does hypnosis do?

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liberates the outer body by unlocking inner psychological tension

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What is free association?

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free-flowing association of idea+feelings

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Dreams are the what to the unconscious?

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the royal road

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What are the 2 parts of dreams analysis?

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manifest content and latent content

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What is manifest content?

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content of a dream that a person remembers

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What is latent content?

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the underlying hidden meaning of a dream

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What is the hallmark of psychoanalytic approach to personality?

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what we see on the surface is only a partial representation of what is lying underneath

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What is the flaw of psychoanalytic approach?

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rarely have a control group and no comparison to evaluate the theory

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What are the 3 parts of the mind according to psychoanalytic approach?

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id, ego, and superego

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The id is the ___ principle and strives to do what?

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pleasure; satisfy it’s desires and reduce inner tension
- contains motivations and emotion

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The ego operates on ____ and does what?

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reality; balances id, super-ego and reality

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The superego is the ___ principle and has ____ guidelines

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moral; ethical

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16
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What are Freudian slips?

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slip ups from unconscious urges

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17
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Psychosexual development is the development of the ____

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psyche

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18
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What is the libido?

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basic drive/motivation

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What are the 5 psychosexual stages?

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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What is the oral stage?
conflict & fixation?

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driven to satisfy hunger and thirst
conflict: child must give up breast feeding
fixation: on dependency

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What is the anal stage?
conflict & fixation?

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they get pleasure through relieving themself of bodily waste; age 2
conflict: must be “toilet trained”
fixation: on neatness

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What is the phallic stage?

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get pleasure thru genitals; around age 4

23
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What is the oedipus complex and what stage does it form?

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boy likes mother, can’t beat father so he compensates by being manly
-forms during phallic stage

24
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What is the electra complex?

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girls develop feelings of inferiority and jealousy of boys

25
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What is castration anxiety?

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fear that father will castrate the boy; during phallic stage

26
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What is latency stage?

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psychosexual energy channeled into academic and social pursuits

27
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What is the genital stage?

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ppl get satisfaction from mature sexual relationships
-achieved if they make it through the other stages

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What are defense mechanisms?

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processes that the ego uses to distort reality to protext itself

29
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What are the 8 defense mechanisms?

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repression, reaction formation, denial, projection, displacement, rationalization, regression, sublimation

30
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What is reaction formation?

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hides threatening impulses by over-emphasizing their opposite
ex. homophobic ppl turn out to be part of LGBTQ

31
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What is sublimation?

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dangerous urges are transformed into positive socially meaningful motivations

32
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What are the 4 steps in Vaillant’s Defense Theory?

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psychotic, immature, neurotic, mature

33
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What is psychotic according to Vaillant?

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similar to denial, common for young children but problematic in adults

34
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What is immature according to Vaillant?

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fantasy and projection, typical for adolescents, but an issue for adults

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What is neurotic according to Vaillant?

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displacement & intellectualization, repression, reaction formation; most common in adults

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What is mature according to Vaillant?

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sublimation; socially unacceptable impulses in condoned manner

37
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What is psychobiography?

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exploring how culture can impact personality development

38
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cultural anthropologists examine the idea that what can produce variations in personality?

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variations in child-rearing across cultures

39
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What were some weakness of Freud?

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very pessimistic, based off of pathology, hard to empirically study, hydraulic model of psychic energy was exaggerated, lead to psychosurgery

40
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What were some strengths of Freud?

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established personality psychology, the importance of the unconscious and early childhood experiences in personality, showed mental illness could be approached scientifically

41
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What is the freudian theory?

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we can experience internal arousal that we do not cog. understand

42
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The cornerstone of Freud’s approach is:

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we do things from unconscious motivation, not free will

43
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What is hypermnesia?

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excess memory; later attempt to remember something brings up info that wasn’t there before

44
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The key to uncovering memories is:

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free association

45
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What is hypnotic hypermnesia?

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enhanced memory under hypnosis; less effective

46
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What is signal detection theory?

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attempt at determining the point where a signal is strong enough to notice it

47
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T/F: infantile amnesia is when infants don’t remember what has happened to them

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F; when adults can’t remember much from their early years

48
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What is verbal learning approach?

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learning words lists

49
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What is the difference between explicit memory and implicit memory?

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explicit is recalling/recognizing something and implicit is when the person isn’t aware that remembering has occurred (ex. typing)

50
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What are 2 phenomena in memory?

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it changes over time + becomes personalized and it is a blend of info from event + person’s expectations

51
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What is the difference between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia?

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anterograde - can’t form new memories
retrograde - can’t recall past events

52
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The analogy for psychoanalytic approach:

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humans are a bundle of sexual and aggressive drives :D

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