Personality Flashcards
(54 cards)
psychodynamic approach
thoughts and emotions are because of unconscious motives and conflicts
trait approach
personality is determined by characteristics that are consistent over long periods of time
humanistic approach
people are good and want to become their best selves. Motivation for self-improvement pushes people to reach their potential
social cognitive approach
viewing behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context
behaviorist approach
human behavior correlates to one’s environment
Freud
saw psychological causes for physical disorders (psychoanalytic approach)
id
basic human drives, want what you want (conscious)
ego
reason and good sense (pre conscious)
superego
morals and values (unconscious)
psychosexual stages
Freud believed we go through stages and if we have a normal experience in each, we pass to the next one. Otherwise, we get fixated
the oral stage
year 1- attention from adults
oral fixation
clingy, dependent
anal stage
1.5-2.5 years- toilet training, self-control
anal retentive
too organized, need order
anal expulsive
messy, disorganized
phallic stage
3 years- differences in sexes, identify with opposite parent
oedipus complex
desire to kill father and marry mother
castration anxiety
boys feel guilty and fear their father would punish them for sexual desires for their mother
latency stage
4–>puberty: everything becomes hidden and still for a while
genital stage
puberty: gender identification, conflicts from earlier come out
defense mechanisms
in order to avoid the bad thoughts; the ego’s protective method of distorting reality
repression
forces/supress disturbing thoughts out of consciousness
regression
retreat to behavior of an earlier stage of development
projection
putting your impulses onto others
