Theories Of Personality

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sublimation

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ego channels unconscious impulses into socially acceptable actions

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Defense Mechanisms

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repression

denial

displacement

introjection

projection

regression

rationalization

reaction formation

sublimation

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introjection

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incorporating positive qualities of another person into one's own ego

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rationalization

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finding excuse or explanation for impulse that helps eliminate guilt or anxiety

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secondary processes

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thinking is in contact with reality

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primary processes

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primary motivators of behavior, called instincts

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aggressive drive

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one of two main instincts or drives that motivates people; the outward manifestation of death instinct

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paradigm

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viewpoint or theoretical model that is shared by many scientists that guides their research activities

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psychosexual stages of development

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1)oral- id takes pleasure in oral gratification

2)anal- satisfaction through aggression and excretory function (retentive vs. expulsive)

3)phallic- genital area & Oedipus complex

4)latency- charactereized by identification, no libidinal conflicts

5)genital- puberty

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Adult oral & personality traits

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1)oral receptive

-dependancy in relationships, overeating, thumb sucking, smoking, gullibility

2)oral aggressive

-possessive/manipulative in relationships, nail biting, verbally aggressive

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fixation (cause & effect on personality)

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-libido gets stuck at psychosexual stage

cause- excessive frustration or gratification of pleasures associated with any stage

effect on personality

-excessive frustration-too strict

-excessive gratification-too lenient

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Oedipus Complex

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predicament that male children fear their fathers will castrate them as punishment of desire for their mother and females become hostile towards their mother

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castration anxiety/penis envy

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boys- castration anxiety

girls- penis envy

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regression

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movement from mature to immature behavior

returning to the gratifications of an earlier stage of psycho-sexual development

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projection

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seeing in others undesirable characteristics that actually reside in one's own unconcious

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displacement

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channeling unacceptable or threatening impulses to a safer object

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denial

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refusal to perceive an unpleasant event in external reality

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repression

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ego forces threatening material into the unconscious

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latent content

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repressed impulses that are always seeking expression

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manifest content

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disguised expression of latent content

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reaction formation

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conversion of an undesirable impulse into its oppossite

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cathexis

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repressed material and instinctual impulses are always seeking expression

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anti-cathexis

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repressed material stays unconscious

(synonym for repression)

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pleasure principle

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seeks the reduction of instinctual tension (the associated pleasure)

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reality principle

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reference to the ego, realistically arbitrate conflicting demands of the id, superego, and external world

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defense mechanism

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ego defends itself against pain of anxiety

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catharsis

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the process of removing hysterical symptoms through "taking them out"

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morality principle

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reference to the conscience, a subsystem of the superego that tells people what they should not do

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libido

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psychic energy, especially for the sex drive

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tendentious jokes

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latent content gives greater pleasure

dirty jokes, tendency towards something

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individuation/self-realization

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process by which a person becomes an individual, a fully developed person with all psychic functions developed

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parapraxes

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freudian slips that are caused by unconscious wishes

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personal unconscious

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repressed experiences that are exclusive to one individual

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non-tendentious jokes

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no latent content

simple jokes, puns

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archetypes

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emotional predispositions, premordial images, or templates in the collective unconscious

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collective unconscious

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archetypes that are a shared level of reality & is inherent in our own brain structure

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complexes

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a constellation of thoughts, ideas and feelings that are related to a particular theme