Test 6 Flashcards
(100 cards)
Person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Personality
Views personality as an interaction between conscious and unconscious mind, stressing the important of motives and conflict
Psychodynamic Theory
The Psychodynamic Theory focuses on what?
The past, unconscious conflicts, and childhood experiences
Protective method of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Defense mechanisms
A Defense Mechanism does what?
- Protect an individual from seeing unconscious conflicts and from others seeing the problems
Characteristics of a Defense Mechanism
- Unconscious
- Protects from painful emotion
- Self-Deceptive
- Used by everyone
Banishment of anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, and memories
Repression
Attributing to one’s own impulses to someone else
Projection
Unacceptable emotions are set apart from conscious awareness
Isolation
Justifying unacceptable behaviors (excuses)
Rationalization
Shifting an emotion to a more acceptable object or person
Displacement
Returning to an earlier stage of maturity
Regression
Carrying on as if no mistake occured
Undoing
Attempt to make up for deficiencies
- Often done with words
Compensation
Ignore the existence of painful realities
Denial
Modeling values and beliefs of another to the extreme/no self-identity
Identification
Personality test that provides ambiguous (not clear) stimuli to assess unconscious conflicts and inner feelings
Projective Test
Projective tests lack what?
Validity and Realibality
People express inner feelings through stories they make up about an ambiguous scene
Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT)
People explain what they see in a series of symmetrical ink blots
Rorschach Inkblot Test
The Inkblot test is what
Subjective and highly criticized due to lack of validity
Views personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth
Humanistic Theory
We are motivated by hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
If our physiological needs are met, we become concerned with what?
Safety needs