Module 44

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In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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Free association

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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Personality

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Freud’s of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in threatening psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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Psychoanalysis

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According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologist, information processing of which we are unaware

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Unconscious

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Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. This operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification

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ID

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A largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the ID, super ego, and reality. This operates on the reality principle, satisfying be ID’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

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Ego

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The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscious) and for future aspirations.

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Superego

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The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which according to Freud the IDs pleasure-seeking energies focused on distinct erogenous zones

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Psychosexual stages

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According to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

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Oedipus complex

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The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents’ values into the developing super egos

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Identification

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According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved

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Fixation

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by after attributing them to others

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Projection

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Defense mechanism that other self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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Rationalization

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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

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Displacement

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Carl Jung’s concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history

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Collective unconscious

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A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.

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Projective test

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A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

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Somatic Apperception Test TAT

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The most widely used projective test, a set of us 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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Rorschach inkblot test

Question 18

Proposes that faith in one’s worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death.

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Terror management theory