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14 Cards in this Set
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Personality |
A persons internally based characteristics ways of acting and thinking |
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Conscious Mind |
Present aware of |
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Preconscious Mind |
What is stored in one’s memory that one is not presently aware of but can access |
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Unconscious Mind |
Part of our mind that we cannot become aware of |
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ID |
Part of the personality that a person is born with, where the biological instinctual drives reside, and that is located totally in the unconscious mind |
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Pleasure Principle |
Immediate gratification for instinctual drives without concern for consequences |
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Ego |
Starts developing in the first year or so of life in order to find realistic outlets for the id’s instinctual drives |
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Reality Principle |
Finding gratification for instinctual drives within constraints of reality |
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Superego |
Represents one’s conscience and idealized standards of behavior |
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Defense Mechanism |
Process used by the go to first reality and protect a person from anxiety |
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Erogenous Zone |
Area of the body where the id’s pleasure seeking energies are focused during a particular stage of psychosexual development |
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Fixation |
Occurs when id’s pleasure seeking energies remaining due to excessive or insufficient gratification of instinctual needs |
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Oral Stage |
Erogenous zones are the mouth, lips, and tongue child's deprive pleasure from oral activities sucking, biting, chewing |
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Anal Stage |
Erogenous zone is the anus child derives pleasure from stimulation of the anal region |