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personality
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an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking/feeling/acting
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free association
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method in psychoanalysis to explore the unconscious- person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
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psychoanalysis
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freud's theory of personality; thoughts and actions attributed to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
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psychodynamic approach
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psychological approach based on the merging of freudian concepts like the unconcsicous with modern ideas
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sigmund freud
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psychologist developed the psychoanalysis theory
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unconcsious
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the unaware thoughts feelingings wishes and memories below the surface
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id/pleasure principle
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reservoir of unconscious psychic energy; demands instant gratification
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ego/reality principle
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largely conscious executive part; seeks to satisfy the id's desires realistically
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superego
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internalized ideas, propvides standards, strives for perfection
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psychosexual stages
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childhood stages of development; ids pleasure seeking energies focus on specific erogenous zones
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oral stage
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pleasure seeking centers-mouth 0-18 months
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anal stage
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pleasure in boowel and bladder elimination 18-30 months
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phallic stage
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pleasure in genitals; incestual feelings; 3-6 years
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latency stage
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dormant sexual feelings 6-puberty
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genital stage
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maturation of sexual interests; puberty and on
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neurosis
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class of functional metnal disorders- involving distress
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oedipus complex
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boys sexual desires to mom; jealousy and hatred towrads father
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electra complex
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girls sexual desires for their fathers; jealous and hatred toward mothers
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hysteria
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anxiety/depression
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libido
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sexual desires
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freudian slip
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verbal mistake that is thought to reveal a repressed belief/emotion/thought
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thantos
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death instinct-agression/fight
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eros
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life instict-sexual desires, libido
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internalization
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process of acceptance of a set of norms established by people or groups which are influential to the individual
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identification
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process by which children incorporate values of their parents into developing superegos
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fixation
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lingering focus of pleasure seekign energies at an earlier stage of unresolved conflicts
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defense mechanisms
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ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety; distort reality
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repression
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basic defense mechanism; banish anxiety arousing things
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regression
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retreating to an earlier, more infantile stage of development
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reaction formation
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ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses to the opposite express feelings opposite of those anxiety arousing
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projection
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disguise own threatening impulses by attributing to others
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rationalization
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unconsciously generate self justifying explatnations to hide from ourselves the real reasons for our actions
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displacement
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shift of sexual/agressive impulses towards a more acceptable and less threatening object/person
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sublimation
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channeling frustrations towards a different goal
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intellectualization
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undertaking an academic unemotional study of topic
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neo-freudian
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psychaitrists and psychologists that were followers of sigmund freud
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erik erikson
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psychologist developed developmental stages of childhood disguised roughly correlated with psychosexual stages
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alfred adler
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neofreudian, psychoanalytical approach- inferiority complex concept
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inferiority complex
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feeling that one is inferior; often subconscious, thought to drive afflicted individuals to compensate
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karen horney
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german psychoanalyst; her theories questioned traditional freudian views on sexuality; neofreudian
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carl jung
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neofreudian; colective unconscious
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collective unconscious
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shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history
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persona
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mask or appearance one presents to the world; may appear in dreams or guises; self-construed
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archetype
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original model of a person, ideal example; may be used to interpret observations
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shadow
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opposite of the ego image; containing qualities that the ego does not identify with but posesses
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anima/animus
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femine image in the masculine psyche or the masculine image in the womans psyche
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projective test
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personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger proejction of inner dynamics
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