Intro To Psych Chapter 11

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psychodynamic approach

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Personality formed by needs, desires, operating outside of awareness motives that can also produce emotional disorders

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id

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source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, our sexual and aggressive drives (devil)

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ego

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enables us to deal with life's practical demands (conscience)

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superego

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reflects the internalization of cultural rules (angel)

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defense mechanisms

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unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce the anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses

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rationalization

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Defense mechanism that gives reasonable explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal one's underlying motives or feelings

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reaction formation

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defense mechanism that involves unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with and exaggerated version of the opposite

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projection

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defense mechanism that attributes one's own threatening feelings, motives, or impulses to another person/group

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regressions

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defense mechanism where ego deals w/ internal conflict and perceived threat by reverting to immature behavior

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displacement

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defense mechanism that shifts unacceptable wishes to a neutral less threatening one

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identification

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defense mechanism that reduces feelings of threat by unconsciously taking the characteristics of another person who is more able to cope

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sublimation

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defense mechanism that channels sexual or aggressive drives into socially acceptable ones

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psychosexual stages

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life stages where personality formed as children experience sexual pleasures from specific body areas and caregivers redirect or interfere with those pleasures

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oral stage

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1. experience centers on the pleasures and frustrations associated with the mouth, sucking, and being fed

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anal stage

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2. pleasures and frustrations associated w/ the anus, retention, and expulsion of feces and urine, and toilet training

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phallic stage

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3. frustration associated with the phallic-genital region as well as coping with powerful feelings of love, hate, jealousy, and conflict

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Oedipus conflict

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child's conflicting feelings toward the opposite-sex parent are resolved by identifying with the same-sex parent

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latency stage

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4. primary focus is on the development of intellectual, creative, interpersonal, and athletic skills

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genital stage

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5. coming together of the mature adult personality with the capacity to love, work, and relate to others

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self-actualizing tendency

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human motive to realize our inner potential

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existential approach

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personality governed by ind. ongoing decisions in the realities of life and death

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social cognitive approach

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personality is viewed how the person thinks about the situations encountered in daily life

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person-situation controversy

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whether behavior is caused more by personality or by situational factors

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personal constructs

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dimensions people use in making sense of their experiences

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outcome expectancies

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person's assumptions about the consequences of a future behavior

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locus of control

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person's tendency to perceive the control or rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment