General Psych: Exam 4: Chapter 14

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What was Sigmund Freud? What was he famous for?

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He was a psychiatrist (medical doctor and he revolutionized psychology. Therapy is because of Freud.

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What were the stigmas around Freud?

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He was a pervert, sex addict, freak, etc.

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During the victoria era...

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You couldn't talk about sex or anything related to it. It was rude and disrespectful.

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Personality is formed by...

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Needs, strivings, and desires that are outside of awareness

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Structures of Personality: ID

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Drives from birth. Selfish immediate gratification. Kind of like the natural man.

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Wanting a peice of candy.

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Structures of Personality: Super Ego

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Rules, Thoughts, Values, etc. Nurture. Don't wanna be punished or abandoned

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Knowing it's wrong to steal candy.

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Structures of Personality: Ego

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Operates under the reality principle. The mediator for the super ego and ID.

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Asking mom for a peice so hopefully she'll say yes and it's also not stealing.

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Erogenous Zone

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Body part couponing to the stage. Example: Oral stage has to do with the mouth, etc.

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Oral Stage

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0-18 months

Puts everything in mouth

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Oral stage fixation

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Chew nails, Bite pencils, etc.

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Anal Stage

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2-3 years, potty training.

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Anal stage fixation

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Anal retentive - Clean freak

Anal expulsive - messy slobs

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Phallic Stage

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3-6 years, wanting to know everything, why does mom not have a penis.

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The Oedipus complex

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The child wants his/her father or mother.

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What is Castration anxiety? What is the name for girls?

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Anxiety concerning why sister doesn't have a penis and why dad is taking mom away. Opposite is called Electra complex.

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Phallic Stage fixation

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Chronic masturbation and sexual deviance

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Latency stage - no erogenous zone

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Focus is more about developing intellect, social skills, creativity, etc. 5-13 years.

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Latency stage fixations

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workaholic or never works

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Genital stage - no erogenous zone

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Everything about who you are comes together. What kind of fixations do you have? prepared to love, forgive, etc. 13 until death.

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Criticisms for freud

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Not scientific, no real solid evidence, no predictive value, and sexuality part was too strong.

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Repression

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"Motivated forgetting". This is when you have a painful memory.

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Rationalization

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Biggest impediments to the repentance process. won't admit that you did something wrong.

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Reaction formation

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opposite feelings and behavior. Ex: Loving someone so much that it is seen as hate. Or hating someone, but smiling and being fake to their face.

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Displacement

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Less threading object. Taking your negative feelings on something less threatening. Ex: screaming in your pillow.

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Identification

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Take on characteristics. Indentifying with someone who oppressed you. Stockholm Syndrome is feeling empathy for that person who abuses you.

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Sublimation

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Unacceptable urges to acceptable activities. Ex: Love watching people get hurt, so i watch football.

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Intelligence

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how you perceive yourself and your surroundings, making desicions, coping, etc.

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Stable Trait

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Makes you behave consistently in all situations.

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Self reports

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Ask quesitons and answer. Ex: "Are you introverted or extroverted?"

Problems: Lying, promoting themselves, don't really know ourselves.

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MMPI-2-RF

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Personality inventory. Most scientifically established personality scale. Designed to capture who people really are.

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Thematic apperception test

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Show picture and ask client to tell story. It will tell the therapist or whoever is administering the test who you are and what you are going through. IMPORTANT: Therapists will project their own biases onto their clients.

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Social congnitive approach

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Theorists say behavior is inconsistent from situation to situation.

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What's the difference between behavior theorists and social cognitive theorists?

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Behavior theorists: Believe behavior is consistent

Social congnitive theorists: Believe that behavior is based on circumstances.

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How does the Reticular formation influence introverts and extroverts?

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It's hard to stimulate for extroverts. They seek social situations to stimulate that part of the brain. Easier to stimulate for introverts.

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Personality is

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Genetic. No hard evidence of environmental influences.

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Locus of control

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Proactive - Assertive. don't wait to be told.

Reactive - opposite. need to be told.

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Internal locus

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Proactive. I oversee my life. no one can make me feel a certain way.

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External locus of control

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Reactive. i can't change things, its fate. out of control. others make me angry.

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Personality theorists argue that...

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Personality makes people behave consistently with their reactions to different stimuli.

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Outcome expectancies

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Motivated to do behaviors is you believe it will get you where you want to be.

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Self serving bias

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Centered on success and failure. When we succeed, it is us who accomplished it. Internal. When we fail, it wasn't our fault, blame, etc.

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Humanistic psychology

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People are fundamentally good. They have potential.

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Abraham Maslow's Hierchy of needs

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You need certain things before you can feel or experience higher things. Example: You need food and water before you find a partner.

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Self actualization

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Motivated to be the best we can. Persons peak.

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Carl rodger's implications

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Contributed to humanistic psych. Said therapists should support and help them unconditionally. Help build trust.

Person centered therapy.

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Existential psychology

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Life is not about happiness. Life is suffering. That's how we get things done. Victor Frankl: Fixated and distraught when we are not happy.

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How do you characterize differences in personality?

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Reliability and validity.

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How many traits are there?

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18,000. But we have narrowed it down to five.

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OCEAN Acronym: O

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Openness to experience

Score high: Open to new ideas, jobs, cultures, etc.

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OCEAN acronym: C

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Conscientiousness.

Score high: Careful, cautious, detail oriented, etc.

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OCEAN acronym: E

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Extroversion

Score High: Social, center of attention, etc.

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OCEAN acronym: A

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Agreeableness

Score High: Agreed a lot, avoids contention, flexible, etc.

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OCEAN acronym: N

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Neuroticism

Score high: Insecure, paranoid, irritable, on edge, etc.