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psychological triad
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how a person thinks, feels, and behaves
these can overlap and conflict |
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personality
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an individual's characteristic patterns of thought, emotions, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms-hidden or not- behind those patterns
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denial
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simplest defense mechanism
refusal to acknowledge the source of anxiety, or even fails to perceive it in the first place usually temporary, but if persistent it could be a sign of psychopathology (i.e. alcoholism) |
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repression
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more complex than denial
pushing out of awareness or failing to perceive things that currently exist, such as an anxiety-producing event or feelings |
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reaction formation
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keeps forbidden thoughts, feelings, and impulses out of awareness and action by instigating their opposites
doing the opposite of the forbidden impulse builds sort of a safety margin, ensuring that the impulse never reaches consciousness or action i.e. gay bashing |
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projection
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tactic of attributing to someone else a thought or impulse that is feared in oneself
"it's not me that feels this way, it's him." |
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rationalization
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most widely used defense mechanism of all
having done something that would otherwise cause you shame, you rationalize the situation |
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intellectualization
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turn the feeling into a thought
i.e. killing people in war |
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displacement
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replacing one object with the emotion of another
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sublimation
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base and forbidden impulses are transformed into constructive behaviors
i.e. if you like to fight a lot, become a lawyer; if you like to poke and probe people, become a surgeon |
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shortcomings of freud's theory
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excessive complexity
case study method poor definitions untestability sexism |
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the result of psychic conflict is _____ .
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anxiety.
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