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Personality
Distinct and enduring
Ways of thinking, feeling & acting
Responses to life situations
Wht clinical phenomena convinced Freud of the power of the uncoscious mind?
Hysteria
Id
Present at birth
Pleasure principle
Totally unconscious
Ego
Develops after the id
Mostly at a conscious level
Reality principle
Executive of personality
Superego
Last to develop
Traditional values of society
Controls the impulses of the id
Moral perfection
Pleasure principle
Desires and wishes that need to be satisfied
constantly looking to satisfy the desires of the id
Reality principle
makes decisions for us
we can't always do what the id wants
Defense mechanisms
unconscious ego processes to resolve anxiety
Where the ego works in the unconscious
Defense mechanisms
Repression
Keep from conscious awareness
Defense mechanisms
Denial
Refuse to acknowledge reality
Defense mechanisms
Displacement
Direct motive to new outlet
Defense mechanisms
Intellectualization
Deal with in abstract terms
Defense mechanisms
Projection
Assign undesirable quality to others
Defense mechanisms
Rationalization
Assign logical motives
Defense mechanisms
Reaction Formation
Strongly express opposite motive
Defense mechanisms
Sublimation
Impulse released in socially acceptable behavior
fixation
Insticts are focused on a particular theme
Too much or too little stimulation of erogenous zone
Object relation theory
focus on how we represent ourselves and other people
Working model
framework of how other people relate to us and how we relate to other people
How does the working model framework form
attachment that each of us form in early life
Attachment styles
Secure
Avoident
Anxious ambivalent
Secure Attachment
Easy to get close
Don't feel like they're going to be abandoned
Tend to be comfortable in relationships
Avoidant
Uncomfortable being close to others
Hard time depending on others
Nervous about intimacy
Anxious Ambivalent
Want more intimacy than other people want to provide
Insecure in relationships
Fear of being abandoned
Too intense
How do attachment styles influence future relations
What happens in early relationships determine how we deal with relationships in the future.
Early relationships are frameworks.
Congruence
We need to have a consistency between perceptions of ourselves and our experiences
Self-consistancy
We need to not have conflict in the perceptions of ourselves
Motivation
Direction persistence and vigor of goal directed behavior
Maslow
Hierarchy of needs
Hierarchy of needs
1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Belongingness and love
4. Esteem
5. Cognitive
6. Aesthetic
7. Self-actualization
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
What branch of psychology
Humanistic
Motivation is a process that influences the __________, ____________, and ___________ of goal-directed behavior.
Direction
Vigor
Persistance
Homeostatic models
motivation as an attempt to maintain equilibrium in bodily systems
Drive Theory
Tissue deficits create drives, such as hunger, that push an organism from within to reduce that deficit and restore homeostasis
Incentive Theory
Environmental factors pull people toward a goal
Expectancy x Value theory
Expectancy x value theory explains why
the same incentive may motivate some people but not others
psychodynamic theory of motivation
unconscious motives guide much of our behavior
Maslow's need hierarchy
Humanistic model of motivation
needs exist in a hierarchy, from basic biological needs to the ultimate need for self-actualization.
Self-determination Theory
Three fundamental needs
Competence
Autonomy
Relatedness
What motivates eating?
What can trigger hunger?
The expected good taste of food
The thought of food
What can affect our food intake
memory
habits
psychological needs
What regulates eating
availability, taste and variety of food
Can cultural norms affect our eating habits?
yes
What affects our susceptibility to obesity?
heredity and the environment
Anorexia and bulimia occur more often
in cultures that value thinness
Can heredity predispose someone to an eating disorder?
yes
affiliate for 4 psychological reasons
Obtain positive stimulation
Receive emotional support
Gain attention
Permit social comparison
Reasons for affiliation
positive stimulation
emotional support
gain attention
social comparison
Some theorists view affiliative behavior as governed
homeostatic principles
BAS
Behavioral activation system
Roused to action by signals of potential reward and positive gratification
BIS
Behavioral inhibition system
Respond to stimuli that signal potential pain, non-reinforcement, and punishment
4 basic achievement goals
Mastery-approach
Ego-approach
Mastery-avoidance
Ego-avoidance
How do emotions further our well-being
rousing us to action
helping us communicate with others
eliciting empathy and help
Primary components of emotion
eliciting stimuli
cognitive appraisals
physiological arousal
expressive and instrumental behaviors
What factors play a role in determining the arousal properties of stimuli?
Innate factors
Learning
Instrumental behaviors
Definition
directed at achieving some emotion-relevant goal
Physiological responses to emotion are produced by
hypothalamus
limbic system
cortex
autonomic system
endocrine system
Conscious and unconscious emotional processing
Conscious - cortex
Unconscious - amygdala
Negative emotions activate in the _______ hemisphere
right hemisphere
behavioral component of emotion includes
expressive behaviors
instrumental behaviors
Accuracy of people's interpretation of expressions is enhanced when
situational cues are also available
Evolutionary theorists propose (about emotion)
Innate components that can be influenced by culture