Personality and Abnormal Psychology Flashcards
(34 cards)
William Sheldon
Body types to personality
E. G. Boring
Zeitgeist
Edward Titchener
Introspection
Structuralism
Philippe Pinel
Start treating patients humanely
Dorothea Dix
Zealous advocate of treating mentally ill humanely
Emil Kraepelin
Precursor to DSM
Cerletti and Bini
Electroshock to treat schizophrenia
Carl Jung
Analytical psychology
More emphasis on interpersonal and cultural influences, regard libido as emerald psychic energy not only rooted in sexuality
Typology of personality
Four psychological functions
Alfred Adler
Individual psychology
Inferiority complex
Striving toward superiority
Creative self
Style of life
Fictional finalism
Karen Horney
Neurotic personality is governed by one of ten neurotic needs
Basic anxiety
Three ways to overcome basic anxiety
Anna Freud
Founder of Ego psychology
Emphasis on studying conscious ego
Erik Erickson
Ego psychologist
Extending psychoanalysis to the psychosocial realm
Cover entire life
Emphasis on healthy development
Melanie Klein, Winnicott, Mahler, Kernberg
Object relation theory
Object theory
Falls under the realm of psychodynamic theories of personality
John Dollard and Neal Miller
Psychoanalytic concepts + behavioral theory
Conflicting motives and conflicting tendencies
Martin Seligman
Learned helplessness
Aaron Beck
Cognitive therapy for depression
Albert Ellis
Rational-emotive therapy (RET)
Kurt Lewin
Humanism
Field theory
Influences by Gestalt psychology
Personality is divided into systems
Abraham Maslow
Humanism
George Kelly
Humanism
Individual as scientist, using preexisting knowledge to predict the behavior of others
Carl Rogers
Humanistic-existential
Client centered
Increase the congruence between what the person thinks of himself and what he actually is
Victor Frank
Survivor of Nazi concentration camp
Meaning to existence
Raymond Cattell
16 basic traits using factor analysis
