Psych Test #2, Chapter #5

Front 1

Where are the two basic childhood needs?

Examples?

Back 1

Satisfaction: Biological Need

Safety: Need for security to be free from fear

Front 2

What are basic evil, basic hostility, and basic anxiety?

What are some examples of parental mistreatment (basic evil) described in class and in the text?

Back 2

Basic evil: Parental mistreatment that undermines child security

(EXAMPLE: Indifference toward a child, rejection of the child)

Basic hostility: Unmet needs

Basic Anxiety: Feeling lonely, helpless in a hostile world

Front 3

What are the 10 strategies for coping with basic anxiety? (Neurotic trends)

Explain each trend

Back 3

Need For/To..

1. Affection and approval: Love in wrong places

2. Partner who will run one's life: Security

3. Live ones life within narrow limits: do what you want

4. Power: Weakness undesireable

5. Exploit others

6. Social recognition and prestige: Let people follow me

7. Personal admiration: Compliments, flattered

8. Ambition and personal achievement: best of all time

9. Self-sufficiency and independence: I can do it

10. Perfection and unassailability: Flawless

Front 4

How do neurotics and healthy people experience these trends?

Back 4

Do not pass easily from one need to the other

Front 5

Explain real and idealized self

Back 5

Real self: To move toward self-realization (Who we really are)

Ideal self: Neurotic abandones real self for the sake of a illusionary (Who we want to be)

Front 6

Living in accordance with the real-self leads to what?

Back 6

Self-Realization

Front 7

Basic evil often leads to the creation of what?

What is the "tyranny of the should"?

Back 7

Basic Hostility toward parents

Tyranny of the should: A set of demands on self that are altogether too difficult and to rigid

Front 8

What are the attempts at coping (neurotic solutions to interpersonal conflicts)?

(Needs?, Types?)

How do neurotics and healthy people experience these attempts?

Back 8

Moving Toward People: Need for affection

(Compliant)

Moving Against People: Need for Power

(Hostile)

Moving Away from People: Need for Independence

(Detached)

The Neurotic Emphasizes 1 of the 3, instead of all 3.

Front 9

What is Externalization?

Externalization is related to which one of Freud's ego defense mechanisms?

How is externalization different from that particular ego defense mechanism?

Back 9

1) The tendency to view everything of importance occurring outside of oneself

2) Projection

3) More Comprehensive

Front 10

What are the characteristics of self-analysis? (helping yourself)

Back 10

Free Association: Break yourself

Overcome Resistances: Overcome

Courage to Change: Change Behavior

Front 11

What are the goal of therapy?

Back 11

Therapy isn't to eliminate but to help individuals solve their problems.

Return the client toward self-realization

Front 12

What are the foundations of feminine psychology?

Back 12

Cultural factors are more important in explaining personality characteristics of both men and women than biological

Front 13

What are criticisms and contributions of Horney's theory?

Back 13

Criticisms: Unoriginal, Little empirical support, Disregard of healthy persons

Contributions: Original ideas, self-analysis, feminine psychology

Front 14

Auxiliary approaches to artificial harmony?

1. Ignoring factors not in accordance

Back 14

Blind Spots

Front 15

2. Situational rules and ethics

Back 15

Compartmentalization

Front 16

3. Logical, plausible justifications, and excuses

Back 16

Rationalization

Front 17

4. Controlling expressions of emotions

Back 17

Excessive Self-control

Front 18

5. Rigid dogmatism

Back 18

Abitrary rightness

Front 19

6. Indecision and lack of commitment

Back 19

Elusiveness

Front 20

7. Failure to believe in anything

Back 20

Cynicism