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19 Cards in this Set
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Freud's ideas on personality
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-deveoloped the first comprehensive theory of personality that he called psychoanalysis
-he used hypnosis to unlock the door of the unconcious |
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manifest content of dreams
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-the remembered content of dreams
-the "main picture" of a dream |
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latent content of dreams
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-the meaning of the dream (have to look deeper to find)
-unconcious wishes |
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Free Association
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say whatever comes to mind
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three parts of personality in psychoanalytic theory
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-Id
-Ego -Superego |
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Id
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strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operating on the pleasure principle
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Ego
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mediates the demands of the id and superego
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Superego
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provides standards for judgment (the conscience)
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Freud's psychosexual stages
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1) Oral (0-10 months)-centers on mouth (sucking, biting)
2) Anal (18-36 months)-bowel and bladder elimination 3) Phallic (3-6 yrs.)-zone is the genitals 4) Latency (6-puberty)-dormant sexual feelings 5) Genital (puberty on)-maturation of sexual interests |
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Freud's defense mechanisms
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-ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Ways it does this: -Repression -Regression -Rationalization |
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Carl Jung: the collective unconscious
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contained a common reservoir of images derived from our species' past
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Projective Tests
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-present an ambiguous stimulus and ask to describe it or tell a story about it - any meaning the person reads into it is a projection of their interests and conflicts.
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Humanistic perspective on personality: Maslow and Rogers
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-emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people
-aims at fostering personal growth -Maslow proposed that we as individuals are motivated by a hierarchy of needs -Rogers believed people are basically good and have self-actualizing tendencies |
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Criticisms of the Humanistic perspective
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-its concepts are vague and subjective
-very individualistic -fails to appreciate the reality of our human capacity for evil |
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Projective Tests: Criticisms
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-critics argue that projective tests lack both reliability and validity
-may diagnose a normal individual as pathological |
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Repression
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one of freuds defense mechanisms.
it banishes anxiety, arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from conciousness. |
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Regression
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one of freuds defense mechanisms.
is retreating to an earlier, more infantile stage of development. |
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Rationalization
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one of freuds defense mechanisms.
we unconciously generate self-justifying explanations to hide from ourselves the real reasons for our actions ("I only dring to be socialble"). |
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Thematic Appreciation Test
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interpretaion of picture is a projection of what is going on internally.
(a kind of projective test) |
