Psychology For Soorena Part 3

Front 1

what is personality?

Back 1

the "unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits." what a pretty definition! remember this!!!!

Front 2

what is personality all about? (what do the traits have to be to be considered part of a personality?)

Back 2

consistency!

Front 3

what is distinctiveness?

Back 3

every one person has a unique combination of traits. this is distinctiveness

Front 4

what are traits of neuroticism?

Back 4

anxiety, self conscious, insecure, more likely to divorce

Front 5

what does the psychodynamic theory focus on and who did it descend from?

Back 5

unconscious mental forces / freud

Front 6

what is the psychoanalytical behavior the outcome of?

Back 6

unconscious conflicts and motives, early childhood experience, and coping methods for sexual and aggressive urges .... mmmmm

Front 7

what are two basic biological drives?

Back 7

sex and aggression. ;)

Front 8

what are freud's 3 levels of awareness?

Back 8

the conscious (above the surface), preconscious (right under the surface), and the unconscious (well below surface - think ice berg!)

Front 9

which level of awareness exerts greatest influence on behavior?

Back 9

the unconscious!

Front 10

what does the ego operate according to? and where is it located (iceberg)

Back 10

reality principle / partly above the surface, but mostly below

Front 11

what is the ID, and where is it located (iceberg)

Back 11

its the primitive instinctive - operates according to the pleasure principle and primary process thinking / located near the unconscious (well below the surface)

Front 12

what is the super ego?

Back 12

the referee that says what is right and wrong

Front 13

what are the psychosexual stages and who's it by? see if you can list them!

Back 13

developmental periods with a characteristic sexual focus and adult personality / Freud / oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genitals

Front 14

Oral psychosexual stage - give me the age, erotic focus, and fixation!

Back 14

0-1 / mouth / sucking or biting

Front 15

anal psychosexual stage - give me the age, erotic focus, and fixation!

Back 15

2-3 / anus / expelling or retaining feces

Front 16

phallic psychosexual stage - give me the age, erotic focus, and fixation! also, what complex is this stage associated with?

Back 16

4-5 / genitals / masturbation (also associate this stage with the oedipal complex (identifying with adult role models)

Front 17

latency psychosexual stage - give me the age, erotic focus, and fixation!

Back 17

6-12 / none (sexually repressed) / expanding social contacts

Front 18

genital psychosexual stage - give me the age, erotic focus, and fixation!

Back 18

puberty onward / genitals (being sexually intimate) / establishing intimate relationships - contributing to society through working

Front 19

what are defense mechanisms?

Back 19

unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions

Front 20

repression - defense mechanism - what happens here?

Back 20

bury distressing thoughts in the unconscious (a fire from childhood!)

Front 21

projection - defense mechanism - what happens here?

Back 21

attributing your own thoughts to someone else, while repressing your own (gossip!)

Front 22

reaction formation - defense mechanism - what happens here?

Back 22

behaving in a way opposite of your true feelings (church people going out of their way to be nice, when they really don't like those people they talk to... lol)

Front 23

regression - defense mechanism - what happens here?

Back 23

reverting back to immature patterns of behavior (temper tantrums)

Front 24

rationalization - defense mechanism - what happens here?

Back 24

create false but plausible excuse to justify an unacceptable abuse (student watches tv instead of studying, saying that "additional study wouldn't do any good anyway." that was the example from my book. sounds like someone i know :) )

Front 25

denial - defense mechanism - what happens here?

Back 25

refuse to admit reality or emotions

Front 26

what are the layers of the analytical stage? (2)

Back 26

1. personal unconscious 2. collective unconscious

Front 27

what is the collective unconscious?

Back 27

latent memory traces inherited from ancestral past

Front 28

what are archetypes?

Back 28

emotionally charged images or thought forms with universal meaning

Front 29

who was the first person to suggest introversion and extroversion?

Back 29

adler

Front 30

adler's belief in striving for superiority - what is this?

Back 30

the universal drive to adapt, improve oneself, and master life’s challenges (because unconsciously, they believe they are inferior)

Front 31

Parable

Back 31

1. Short fiction that *illustrates a moral lesson * through the use of allegory *
2. A short allegorical story:
* designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson

Front 32

adler's belief in the inferiority complex - what's this?!

Back 32

excessive feelings of feelings of inadequacy, caused by parents either pampering or neglecting

Front 33

adler's belief in overcompensation - what is this?

Back 33

to hide the inferiority from yourself

Front 34

who was the first to suggest birth order?

Back 34

adler!