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30 Cards in this Set
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Personality
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Unique and consistent pattern of
Thinking Feeling Behaving |
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Personality Theories
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Explain how individual are similar and how they are different.
There are 4 theories |
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Psychoanalytic Perspective
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Importance of:
Unconscious Processes Early Childhood (Freud) |
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Levels of Awareness
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Conscious
Preconscious Unconscious |
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Conscious
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Currently aware of thoughts feels and ect.
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Preconscious
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Long term memory
You are not currently aware of it but it can be brought to your awareness |
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Unconscious
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Drives our personality
Drives our own feelings Contains death wish |
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Structure of Personality
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Iceberg
3 parts Conflict |
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Iceberg
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Is the shape of the three parts
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3 parts
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There are three parts of an iceberg and there are three parts of our personality
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Conflict
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Always in conflict
Gives anxiety |
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3 Parts
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Id
Ego Superego |
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Id
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Primitve Part
Unconscious Libido Source (source of energy) The pleasure Principle Id is presnce at birth |
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Pleasure Principle
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Immediate satisfaction
Increase pleasure decreases pain Don't understand post poning untill later date |
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Ego
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Mostly conscious
Organized Rational Planning dimension Reality Principle (Postpone Graditifaction till a proper time) |
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Superego
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Conscious and un conscious
Evaluates behavior/thoughts Praises or admonishes |
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Freuds Ego Defense Mechanisms
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Ego Defense Mechanisms:
Unconscious thoughts or perceptinos - provokes anxiety Act to reduce anxiety Used by ego |
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Repression
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Exclusion from conscious awareness
Most common |
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Displacement
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Redirecting emotional impulses toward a less threatening source
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Sublimation
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Sexual urges are rechanneled into productive nonsexual activities.
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Rationalization
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Justifing one's behavior with socially acceptable explanations
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Projection
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Attribute of one's own unacceptable urges to another
(gossip) |
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Reaction Formation
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Thinking or behaving in a way that is extreme opposite of unacceptable urges
The way you think might not be acceptable. |
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Denial
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Failure to recognize anxiety-provoking info
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Regression
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Retreating to an earlier stage of develpment due to anxiety
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Freuds Psychosexual stages of development
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Psychosexual Stages:
Sex instinct-all have a sex drive 5 stages At each stage it centers on a body part and a conflict arises. Must be resolved to avoid fixation |
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Stages
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Oral
Anal Phallic Latency Genital |
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Oral
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Birth to 12-18 months
Infants gain sexual gratifaction with sucking. Conflict with weeing of the breast |
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Anal
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12-18 months to 3 yrs
The anus is the body part and they get gratifaction with expelling fecus. They are very clean and or very neat |
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Phallic
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3 yrs-5-6 yrs
Boys- oe dipus find mom sexual arousal but theres dad. So boys are afraid so they get castration anxiety. Girls - Eleotrax find dad sexual arousal but theres mom. So girls don't fully delevop a superego. |
