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23 Cards in this Set
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Personality
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characteristic patern of thinking, feeling and acting
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Id
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totally unconscious; reervoir of unconscious psychic energy; sexual and aggressive drives; pleasure principle
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Ego
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Mostly conscious; thinking and feeling; reality principle; mediates
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Superego
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Conscience; internalized ideas/how we ought to behave; on all plains of consciousness
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Psychosexual Stages
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Oral--sucking
Anal--controlling bowel movement Phallic--penis Latency--sexual desires dormant Genital--puberty on |
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Fixation
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continued energy directed at an erogenous zone due to unresolved conflict during stage
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Oedipus Complex
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Phallic; boy's sexual desires for his mom and jealousy towards dad; castration anxiety--superego
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Electra Complex
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Girls fall in love with dads
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Defense Mechanisms
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Ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality; intrapsychic conflict-->anxiety-->reliance on defense mechanisms
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Repression
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Push anxiety-causing thoughts into the unconscious
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Reaction Formation
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Ego turns unacceptable impulses into their opposites
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Regression
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Retreat to childhood behaviors
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Projection
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Attribute threatening impulses to others
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Displacement
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Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a less threatening object
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Denial
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Refuse to acknowledge threatening situation
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Sublimation
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Redirecting bad impulses into socially acceptable outlet
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Rationalization
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Come up with excuses for our behavior
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Self concept
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How we see ourselves; more important than reality
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Incongruence
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Idea and reality of self don't match up-->psych problems
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Self actualization
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Fulfilling true potential
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Biological Theories
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Personaity is genetically determined
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Trait Theories
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characteristic behaviors and dispositions
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Big Five
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Emotional stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness
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