Individuals and Groups Flashcards
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Freudian defense mechanisms - Repression
- Primary repression - unwanted material is blocked or disguised before reaching conscious awareness (may leak into consciousness)
- After-expulsion/repression proper - unwanted material is detected and blocked or disguised
Freudian defense mechanisms - Freudian denial
no threat xperience, honest denial of experience - fooling yourself rather than other people
Freudian defense mechanisms - splitting the world
associating good with yourself and those you like and project negatively onto those you don’t
Freudian defense mechanisms - rationalisation
admittance but give a different account e.g. beating a child ‘for their own good’
Freudian defense mechanisms - displacement
authority figure upsets you so displace frustration to nearest thing similar to authority e.g. mad at boss so shout at wife
Freudian defense mechanisms - Altruism
Treat people like you would like to be treated - comfort of security - taking pleasure in helping others (Generative altruism as a choice to enjoy other’s improved welfare) TMT (Terror management theory) morality awareness triggers anxiety - coped with by being a good member of a good society
Freud’s topographical model
Conscious (currently thinking about), pre-conscious (not aware but could be - can draw into conscious), unconscious (can’t easily/at all bring into conscious)
Psychosexual stages of development
0-1 - Oral stage
1-3 - Anal stage
3-5 - Phalic stage
5-12 - Latency stage
Adolescence - Genital stage
Development since Freud
- Erikson’s age related ‘crises’ e.g. midlife crisis - positive and negative outcomes at every stage
- Identity status during adolescence - Marcia - we are told how to live our lives e.g. boys don’t cry - (e.g. ’if you haven’t asked ‘who am I?’ and just accepted societal expectations then you have foreclosed your identity)
Oral character/personality
oral incorporative (optimistic) aggressive (pessimistic)
Anal personality
- Anal triad - orderliness, obstinacy, parsimony
- Anal retentive - rigid and over-controlled, stingy, rule-loving ect.
- Anal expulsive - sadistic and ‘under-controlled’, messy, rebellious (maybe cruelty) ect.
Ideological attractiveness
Different people are attracted to different ideologies - ones that fit people’s needs - personality needs
Individual ideologies
- That adult political ideologies and preferences stem from and express and can therefore be used to reveal - underlying personality needs
- Needs - Personalities are made up of needs (primitive emotional needs) - avoid punishment and to keep the good will of the social group - needs to maintain harmony and integration within the self
(personality as a potential - mainly latent)
Affects on personality
- Experience affects personality - nurture more profound earlier in life (Freud) - parental decisions (child rearing) can affect personality for the course of a life
- Society affects personality - “changes in social conditions and institutions will have a direct bearing upon the kinds of personalities that develop within society” - common patterns will be discovered (can bear similarities to cultural ideologies e.g. fascism)
Social psychological ideology
common patterns with similarities to cultural ideologies when examining numerous individuals
If the role of personality can be made clear, it should be possible better to understand which societal factors are the most crucial ones”
When is authoritarian ideology most appealing?
when people’s psychological needs feel met by ‘bowing up while kicking down’ (obeying father figures and dealing firmly with outsiders)
TAP study sample
over 2000 white, non-Jewish native born, non-fascist americans, predominately middle class, relatively well educated and youngish, exclusion of minority groups (wanted to represent those who would oppress them), recruited via formal organisations
Scales used in TAP study
((AS- anti-sematic scale, Ethnocentrism (E) scale, Political and economic conservatism (PEC) scale, Potential for fascism scale (F) scale). - Qualitative comparison of low and high E people (used to inform subsequent questionnaires, interviews and projective techniques),
AS personality scale (anti-semitic)
(readiness to support or oppose anti-semitic ideas) - negative opinions regarding Jews, hostile attitudes toward them and moral values which permeate the opinions and justify the attitudes. - subscales - offensive, threatening ect.
E personality scale (ethnocentric)
readiness to support or oppose ideologies incorporating in-group/out group hostility - anti-black, patriotic ect. - people high in AS were high in E scale. An attachment to ‘things as they are’ a resistance to social change, elements of individual liberty and personal responsibility (opposition to state ‘interference’) - conservative
Recursive triangulation (in TAP study)
(learn lessons from studies and improve to do it again and achieve better results). - to study potentially anti-democratic individuals it was necessary to identify them. High and low results of E personality scale were interviewed and asked many relevant questions - looking for subtle measures for attention to fascism
F scale (potential for fascism)
target neutral items (don’t have to name group), all pro-trait (more potential = higher score) but people have different response types. People they were interested in were conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression ect.
The prototypical authoritarian
some characteristics are hidden, aggressive impulses but dare not direct them - not thoughtful - don’t question stuff - do what they are told.
Right wing authoritarianism (RWA)
authoritarian submission - Submission to the established, legitimate authorities in their society, Aggression in the name of those authorities, Conventionalism (keep status quo) - dangerous worldview