Z Unit 10.2 Psychology

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Psychoanalysis

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Bringing forward repressed unconscious thoughts used with free association

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Free association

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Developed by Freud, saying whatever comes to your mind without trying to limit or evaluate your response.

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Unconscious

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Our thoughts that we are not aware of, wishes, feelings, and memories.

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Id

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Unconscious psychic energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress

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Ego

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The reality principle seeking to gratify the id’s impulses in realistic ways to bring long term pleasure

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Superego

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The voice of our moral compass that forces the who to consider not only the real but the ideal

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Psychosexual stages

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During which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct pleasure-sensitive areas of the body called erogenous zones
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital

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Identification

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A psychological process whereby the subject assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed, wholly or partially, by the model the other provides.

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Defense mechanisms

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Regression, repression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, sublimation, and denial

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Repression

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Banishes anxiety arousing wishes and feelings from consciousness

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Oedipus complex

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Unconscious sexual feelings for your mother and hatred for your father

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Fixate

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More generally, it is the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another person, being, or object.

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Collective unconscious

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A common reservoir of images, or archetypes, derived from our species’ universal experiences

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Projective tests

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A psychological x-Ray by asking test takers to describe an ambiguous stimulus or tell a story about it.

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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Where a person views an ambiguous picture and then makes up a story about it

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Rorschach inkblot test

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People describe what they see in a series of inkblots

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False consensus effect

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The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share their beliefs and behaviors

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Terror management theory

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Faced with a threatening world, people act not only to enhance their self esteem but also to adhere more strongly to world views that answer questions about life’s meaning

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Personality

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An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Psychodynamic theories

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Modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences