lecture 6 Flashcards

Question

Explain stage 6: intimacy vs isolation | young adulthood

Answer 1

"Can I build meaningful relationships?" - Close relationships and commitment foster intimacy. - Fear of rejection or self-centeredness leads to isolation. - Balanced outcome: Forming bonds while maintaining a sense of independence - **love** developed

Answer 2

"Am I contributing to the world?" - Helping others and productive work create a sense of generativity. - Lack of purpose or productivity leads to stagnation. - Balanced outcome: A sense of contributing to society with personal fulfillment. - **care** developed

Answer 3

"Did I live a meaningful life?" - Reflecting on life with satisfaction leads to integrity and acceptance. - Regret or dissatisfaction leads to despair and fear of death. - Balanced outcome: Peace with life choices while acknowledging imperfections - **wisdom** developed

Answer 4

emphazies impact of early relationships on personality development and adulthood **objects** - internal representation of important people and self - doesnt always match reality - we feel mixed emotions towards objects - we may love parts of the object, but it doesnt mean we love the object **object integration** - see others as complex **split-object image** - overly simplistic view of others **basic fault** - occurs when a child grows up feeling unconnected with their mother **Good object relations** (when the infant experiences consistent care and comfort) allows the child to develop a stable and positive self-image, as well as healthy relationships with others. **Poor object relations** (when care is inconsistent or neglectful) can lead to insecurity, mistrust, and difficulty in forming stable relationships later in life.

Answer 5

Klein emphasized the importance of managing internal conflicts, like love and aggression, in forming healthy relationships - Klein believed that from birth, infants relate to objects or people, often the mother or a favourite toy. The most important objet for an infant is their mothers breasts - can be good or bad; they fail to understand that good or bad can be the same object

Answer 6

*splitting breasts; good and bad breast* good breast = feeds and nourishes bad breast = witholds and prosecutes **Paranoid position**: not able to integrate good and bad parts **Depressive position:** integrates good and bad, creates ambivalence **Good parenting:** should allow child to navigate these stages successfully and be able to heal the split realizing that good and bad parts make the whole person

Answer 7

- Winnicott introduced the concept of the "good-enough mother," emphasizing that a caregiver does not need to be perfect but should be responsive enough to meet the infant's needs. - A “good-enough mother” allows the infant to experience both presence and slight absence, fostering resilience and a sense of independence. - He also highlighted the idea of the "transitional object," such as a blanket or toy, which helps infants manage the transition from dependency to autonomy by providing comfort in the mother’s absence.

Answer 8

- Minimize discrepancies between true and false selves - Help the client see important people in his life the way they actually are - helping patients improve their relationships by changing how they function internally and experience interactions with others.

Answer 9

expectations people develop about relationships, based on the relationship they had with their primary caregiver when they were infants. - basically how childhood experiences affect our adulthood

Answer 10

**As a child** - able to seperate from parent - seeks comfort from parent - return of parent is met with positive emotions - prefers parents to strangers **As an adult** - trusting, long lasting relationships - good self-esteem - open about feelings - seek out social support

Answer 11

**As a child** - may avoid parents - does not seek comfort from parents - little or no preferance between parent and stranger **As an adult** - intamcy problems - invest little emotion in social relationships - unable/unwulling to share feelings with others

Answer 12

**As a child** - wary of strangers - greatly distressed when parent leaves - not comforted when parent returns **As an adult** - reluctant to become close with others - worry their partner does not love them - become very distright when relationship ends

Answer 13

**experiment**: - mom plays with child in room for several minutes - mom then leaves for a couple minutes - watch for childs reaction when mother leaves - watch for childs reaction when the mother returns - after both reactions observed, sort into secure, avoidant or ambivalent attachment style

Answer 14

- Influence of Psychoanalysis: Westen (1998) - Independent and simultaneous mental processes that can conflict - Unconscious mental processes - Compromises among mental processes negotiated outside of consciousness - Self-defensive thoughts and self-deception - The influence of the past on current functioning - The influence of sexual or aggressive wishes

Answer 15

- he unconscious can perceive things without the conscious mind’s awareness to prevent anxiety - Recognition of “dirty” versus neutral words (McGinnies, 1949). emotionally charged words shown very briefly, participants might say, “I can’t read that word,” although physiological reaction recorded - Looked at critical words longer before acknowledging recognition

Answer 16

- Dual process model - Defenses and Catharsis - Traits associated with having an anal or oral character correlate with each other as theorized.

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