Intro to personality and Freud 4.4 - 4.5a

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Psychoanalytic

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Unconciouss mind and childhood (sexuality)

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Humanistic

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Growth and self fufillment

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Social cognitive

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Traits/thinking and social settings/context

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Trait

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Patterns of behavior

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Psychoanalytic theory

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A person’s thoughts and behaviors emerge from tension generated by unconscious motives and unresolved childhood conflicts

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Psychoanalysis as a therapy

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A therapeutic technique that attempts to provide insight into one’s thoughts and actions; exposing and interpreting the underlying unconscious motives and conflicts; unresolved conflicts

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Free association

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Exploring the unconscious mind by having the person relax and say whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarassing

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Hypnosis

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Relaxing a person into a highly suggestive state to uncover unconscious memories or conflicts

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Dreams

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Behind the surface image (manifest content) lies the true hidden meaning (latent content)

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Freudian slip

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“Slips of the tongue” where unconscious desires sneak out in our speaking

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Freud’s concept of the mind

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Most of the mind is hidden; personality comes from the conflict that arises between our biological impulses and society’s should and should not; 3 parts to the mind and personality

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Unconscious mind - 3 part mind

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A region of the mind that includes unacceptable anxiety causing thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

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Preconscious mind - 3 part mind

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The region of the mind holding information that is not conscious but is easily retrievable into conscious awareness

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Conscious mind - 3 part mind

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All the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that you are aware of at this particular moment represent the conscious level

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Id - 3 part personality

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The part of the personality that consists of unconscious energy from basic aggressive and sexual drives (Immediate gratification, pleasure principle, present at birth)

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Pleasure principle/eros

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Drive toward immediate gratification, most fundamentla human motive

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Libido

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Sexual energy or motivation

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Thanatos

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Death instinct, aggression, self-destructive actions

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Superego - 3 part personality

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The shoulds and should nots of society (Your conscious, moralistic, judgemental, perfectionist, sense of pride or guilt)

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Ego - 3 part personality

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Meditates the demands of the id without going against the restraints of the superego

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Reality principle

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Ability to postpone gratification in accordance with demands of reality/society

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Oral stage

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(0-18 months) Mouth is associated with sexual pleasure; chewing, biting, sucking
Fixation: smoking, chewing on nails

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Anal stage

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(1-3) Gratification comes from bowel and bladder function
Fixation: Anal retentive or expulsive behaviors in adulthood

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Phallic stage

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(3-6) Pleasure shifts to the genitals; Sexual attraction for opposite sex parent; child tries to learn gender identity

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Oedipus complex

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Boys cope with incestuous feelings toward their mother and rival feelings toward their dad - act more like dad to get mom's attention Fixation: Overruling

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Electra complex

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Incestuous feelings for their dad and compete with their mother - do things that mom does to get dad's attention Fixation: Becoming overly needy

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Castration anxiety

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Results in boys who feel their father will punish them by castrating them

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Penis envy

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The little girl suffers from deprivation and loss and blames her mother for "sending her into the world insufficiently equipped" causing her to resent her mother

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Latency stage

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(5-puberty) Sexuality is repressed due to intense anxiety caused by Oedipus complex Children participate in hobbies, school, and same-sex friendships that strengthen their sexual identity

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Genital stage

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(Puberty on) Incestuous sexual feelings re-emerge but being prohibited by the superego are redirected toward others who resemble the person's opposite sex parent

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Defense mechanisms

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Unconscious, used by the ego to diffuse tension from the conflict between your id and superego; reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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Repression

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Pushes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, and memories into the unconscious mind

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Regression

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Going back to a safer, simpler way of being

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Reaction formation

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Replacing an unacceptable wish with its opposite; behaving in ways that are exactly opposite of how we truly feel

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Projection

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Attributing something that we don't like about ourselves to someone else; blaming other people or things for our own failure

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Rationalization

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Displaces real, anxiety-provoking explanations with more comforting justifications for one's actions; "I failed because my teacher hates me"

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Displacement

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Shifts an unacceptable impulse toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person; yelled at by parents, let out anger by slamming door

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Sublimation

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Substitute an undesirable emotion or drive with a socially acceptable one; socially acceptable outlet for your id's impulses; football instead or fighting

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Denial

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Rejecting the truth of a painful reality

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Undoing

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Unconsciously neutralizing an anxiety-causing action by doing a second action that undoes the first

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Psychodynamic perspective

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A more modern view of personality that retains some aspects of Freudian theory but rejects other aspects

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Inferiority complex - Adler

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A condition that comes from being unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings

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Superiority complex - Adler

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Overcompensating for feelings of inferiority where one exaggerates achievements and importance to cover up their own limitations

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Basic anxiety - Horney

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The feeling of being isolated and helpless in a hostile world - insecurely attached causes anxiety

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Collective unconscious

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Set of common themes, or archetypes inherited from the wealth of human experience and shared by all people