Psychology Final (Chapter 13)

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Psychoanalytic Theory

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Freud's view that human behavior and personality are determined largely by psychological factors, many of which are unconscious.

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Psychodynamic Approach

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Focuses on the unconscious mental processes in explaining human thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

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Freud's Personality

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Id-basic instinct, desires,and impulses.(Pleasure Principle-principle of the Id, whatever feels good)

Ego-The part that makes compromises and mediates conflicts between the Id and the Superego.(Reality Principle-take into account the constraints of the social world)

Superego-Tells people what they should and should not do(right and wrong)

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Defense Mechanisms

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Unconscious tactics that either prevents threatening material from surfacing or disguise it when it does.

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Oral Stage

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The first stage in Freud's psychosexual stages, the mouth is the center of pleasure.

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Anal Stage

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The second stage in Freud's psychosexual stages, the pleasure shifts from mouth to anus.

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Phallic Stage

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The third stage in Freud's psychosexual stages, the pleasure shifts to the genital area

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Latency Period

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The fourth stage in Freud's psychosexual stages, sexual impulses become dormant and the child focuses on education and other matters.

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Genital Stage

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The fifth and last stage in Freud's psychosexual stages, when sexual impulses reappear at the conscious level during adolescence.

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Trait Theory

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Views personality as a combination of stable characteristics that people display over time and across situations.

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Unconscious

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according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.

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Inferiority Complex

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Adler's idea that feelings of inferiority develop from early childhood experiences of helplessness and incompetence

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Assessments of Personality

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Observation,Self-report inventories, projective tests(Rorschach/ Inkblot tests), and Objective Tests.

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Biological Theory

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Organic or Psychological factors- brain and genetic factors

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Humanistic Psychology

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perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving.

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Endomorph

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Fat Tissues; Relaxed and sociable

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Mesomorph

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Muscles and bones; Athletic and energetic

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Ectomorph

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Nervous System; Nervous and Introverted