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What is personality |
A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world |
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Psychodynamic Perspective |
Theoetical views emphasizing that personality is primarily unconscious (beyond awareness) |
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Structure and function of personality (freud) |
ID - unconscious desires, resevoir of sexual energy Ego - demands of reality, within the norms of society, reasoning, problem solving, and decision maker. Mediator Superego- Harsh internal judge of our behavior, conscience. Evaluates morality of our behavior |
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Defense Mechanisms |
Tactics the ego use to reduce anxiety by distorting reality - ego |
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Displacement |
Shifts feelings toward an unacceptable object to another, more acceptable object |
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Rationalization |
Replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one (student gets bad grade, blames teacher for playing favorites) |
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Reaction Formation |
Transforms an unacceptable motive into it's opposite (homophobic senator has a same sex lover) |
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Repression |
Master defense mechanism, ego pushes unacceptable impulses out of awareness, back into the unconscious mind (Repressed memories) |
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Denial |
A refusal to acknowledge anxiety producing realities |
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Projection |
Attributes personal shortcomings, problems and faults to others |
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Sublimation |
Replaces unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one (strong sexual urges paints nude portraits) |
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Are defense mechanisms beneficial? |
They can be, able to help you deal with a crisis until you have the proper tools to confront trauma and heal |
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Psychosexual Stages of Development According to Freud |
Oral Stage Anal stage Phallic Stage Castration Anxiety Latency Period Genital Stage |
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Oral Stage (0-18 Months) |
Infant's pleasure centers on the mouth. Sucking, chewing, biting reduce tension |
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Anal Stage (18-36 months) |
Childs greatest pleasure involves the anus and urethra and their functions, toilet training, pleasure in going and holding it |
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Phallic Stage (3-6 Years) |
Focuses on the genitals as the child discovers that self stimulation is enjoyable (Oedipus Complex) |
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Castration Anxiety |
Girls have penis envy, women don't have castration anxiety to develop super ego, are morally inferior |
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Latency Period (6-puberty) |
Psychic time out. Child sets aside their interest in sexuality |
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Genital Stage (Adolescence to Adulthood) |
Sexual Reawakening. Source of sexual pleasure shifts to someone outside the family, love and work |
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What occurs if a fixation or reaction formation occurs at one of the stages |
If it occurs during the anal times it can have an enormous impact on adult personality, like being anal retentive (neat and organized) Reaction formation (oral stage) doesn't like to eat or things in the mouth |
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Criticisms of Freuds Theory? |
First five years are not as powerful in shaping adult personality as Freud thought. Ego and conscious thought process play a larger role in personality Not always tied to sexual impulses Sociocultural factors are much more important than freud believed |
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Archetypes according to Jung? |
Emotionally laden ideas and images in the collective that have rich and symbolic meanings for all people |
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Persona |
Public mask that we all wear during social interactions, allows us to keep a secret self from others |
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Shadow |
Secret pain of ourselves hidden from others |
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Collective Unconscious according to Jung |
contains archetypes, emotionally laden ideas and images that have symbolic meaning for all people |
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Adler says about birth order |
Can have a profound influence on personality |
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Humanistic Perspective |
Theoretical views stressing a person's capacity for personal growing and positive human qualities |
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Unconditional Positive Regard |
Roger's construct refering to the individuals need to be accepted, valued, and treated positively - regardless of behavior |
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Conditions of Worth |
Standards that the individual must live up to in order to receive positive regard from others |
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Empathy |
Being a sensitive listener and understand another's true feelings |
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Genuineness |
Being open with one's feelings and dropping all pretenses and facades |
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Self Concept |
Conscious representation of who we are and who we wish to become |
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What did Maslow say regarding developing your full portential? |
Self actualization is the motivation to develop one's full potential |
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Psychotherapy |
A nonmedical process that helps individuals with psychological disorders recognize and overcome their problems |
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Therapeutic alliance effects the outcome of psychotherapy? |
When therapists and clients feel they are engaged in a real working relationship characterized by trust, respect and cooperation |
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Insight - oriented therapy |
Treatments focused on gaining insight to the causes of problems |
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Transference |
Psychoanalytic term for the clients relating to analyst in ways that reproduce or relive important relationship in the individual's life |
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Theories in the Psychodynamic Perspective |
Treatments that stress the importants of the unconscious mind, extensive interpretation by the therapist and the role of early childhood experiences |
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Main goal of psychoanalysis |
Freuds theraputic technique for analyzing an individuals uncounsious thoughts |
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Free association |
Saying aloud whatever comes to mind in response to a symptom |
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Dream Analysis |
Psychoanalytic technique for interpreting a person's dreams |
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How is therapy done in the humanist perspective |
Treatments that emphasize clients self healing capabilities and encourage clients to understand themselves and grow |
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Rogerian Therapy |
Client centered therapy developed by Roger's, the therapist provides a warm supportive atmosphere to improve the clients self concept and encourage the client to gain insight into problems |
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What is client centered therapy? |
Rogerian therapy |
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How is applied behavioral analysis used with children with Autism? |
Establishing positive reinforcement connections between behaviors and rewards that that individuals engage in appropriate behavior and extinguish inappropriate behavior |
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Paxil? |
Anti Depressent |
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SSRI's? |
Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft |
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Lithium? |
Bipolar Disorder |
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PsychoSurgery |
Biological therapy with irreversible effects that involves removal or destruction of brain tissue to improve the individual's adjustment. It used to be used frequently bus is rare now. |
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ECT? |
Electroconvulsive therapy, a treatment sometimes used for depression that sets off a seizure in the brain also called shock therapy |