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Ch. 11 Personality
Personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/16/2008

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Id
Definition
Unconscious, Life/Death instincts, Operates on the pleasure principle
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Ego
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Subconscious, "Self", operates on the Reality Principle, finds a happy medium between the Id and Superego
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Superego
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Conscious, tells people what the right thing is, moral guide, just as stubborn as the id regarding influence
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Oral Stage
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1st year, MOUTH is source of pleasure, weaning. Too early=biting sarcasm. Too late= overeating or childlike dependence.
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Anal Stage
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2nd year, ANUS is source of pleasure, Ego develops to cope with demands for appropriate behavior. Toilet training too early= stinginess/ excessive neatness. Too late= disorganization and impulse.
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Phallic Stage
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3-5th year, PENIS is source of pleasure, Boys= Oedipus Complex, girls= Electra Complex. Cause the Superego to form, Fixation leads to difficulty with authority and problems with stable love relationship
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Latency Period
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Through Childhood; Sexual desires disappear as the child focuses on friends and school
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Genital Stage
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Adolenscence through life; GENITALS are source of pleasure, quality of relationships depends on how earlier stages worked out.
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Carl Jung
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People are born with general life force in addition to sex drive, there is creative drive, etc. People gradually develop degrees of introversion and extraversion.
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Alfred Adler
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Power behind personality come from a desire to overcome infantile feelings as control the environment
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Karen Horney
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Men envy women because they can't have children and feel less meaning full. Develop Womb envy. Women feel inferior because of cultural factors and restrictions men place on them.
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