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Chapter 3
Psychoanalystic Aspects of personalit
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/04/2009

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Psychoanalytic
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Sigmund Fredu's basic approach to understanding personality
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Hysteria
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A term used for various forms of mental illness for which no organic cause could be found and which could sometimes be cured by psychological and social influences
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Hypnosis
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A process by which a person is induced into a trance state where action is partially under the control or another
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Free Association
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A method used in pscho analysis in which an individual reports everything that comes into awareness
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Unconscious
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the portion of the mind that is not accesible to conscious thought
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Manifest Content
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The part of dreams or other aspects of psychological experience that is remembered and consciousl considered
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Latent Content
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the part of dreams or other spects of psychological experience that underlies the conscious portion and reveals hidden meaning
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ID
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In psychoanalytic theory, the undifferentiated, unsocialized core of personality that contains the basic psychic energy and motivations
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Pleasure principle
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the operating principloe of the id to satisfy pleasure and reduce inner tension
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Ego
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In pschoanalytic theory, the personality structure that dvelops to deal with the real world; in neo-analtic theory, this term refers to the individualit fo a person that is the central core of personalitý; and specifically for Carl Jung, it is the aspect of personality that is conscious and embodies the sense of self.
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Reality principle
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In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the operating force of the ego to solve real problems.
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Superego
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In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the personality structure that develops to internalize societal rules and guide goal-seeking behavior toward socially acceptable pursuits.
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Libido
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Sigmund Freud. Sexual energy that underlies psychological tension. Carl Jung's Neo-analytic theory: the term is used to describe general psychic energy that is NOT necessarily sexual in nature
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Oral Stage
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Freud. Stage of psychosexual development before age one. Infants driven to satisf their drives of HUNGER/ THIRST
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Anal Stage!!!!!
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Freud. Stage two, age two. Children are toilet trained. Defective people in this stage can be passive-agressive or wiicked tidy/sloppy
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Phallic Stage
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third stage of psychosexual development. Around age four. Child's sexual energy is focused on the genitals
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Phallic Stage
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third stage of psychosexual development. Around age four. Child's sexual energy is focused on the genitals
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Castration Anxiety
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Freud. Unconscious fear of castration that results from a bos struggle to deal with his love for his mother while knowing that he cannot overcome his father
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Oedipus Complex
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Freud. describes a boy's sexual feelings for his mother and rivalries with his father
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Penis Envy
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Term used by freud to describe the phenomenon in which a girl develops feeligns of inferiority and jealousy over her lack of a penis (wtf)
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Latency Period
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Freud. Period between age 5-11 in which no psychosexual developments take place and during which sex urges are not directly expressed but instead are channeled into other activities.
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Genital Stage
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Freud. Stage of psychosexual development starting at adolescence. Attention turned toward heterosexual relations.
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Anxiety
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EGOS JOB TO PROTECT AGAINST ANXIETY. failures lead to psychological problems
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defense Mechanism
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psychoanalytic theory. processes that distort reality to protect ego
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Repression
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Defense Mechanism (DM. pushes threatening thoughts into unconscious
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Reaction Formation
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DM. pushes away threatening impulses by overemphasizing the opposite in ones thoughts/actions
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Denial
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DM refuses to acknowledge anxiety provoking stuff
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Projection
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DM. anxeity-arousing impulses are externalized and taken out on others
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Displacement
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DM. the target of one''s unconscious fears or desires is shifted away from true cause.
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Sublimation
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DM. transforming of dangerous urges into positive, socially acceptable motivations
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Regression
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DM. one returns to earlier, safer stages of one's lfie in order to escape present threats
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Rationalization
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DM. post-hoc logical explanations given for behaviors that're driven by interior motives
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Psychoanalysis
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Freuds approach to understanding human behavior; also Fredud's psychtherpeutic techniques
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Psychosurgery
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Operating on the brain in attempt to repair personality problems
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Behaviorism
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John Watson. Learning approach to psychology emphasizes stud of observable behavior
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Hypermnesia
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Situation in which later attempt to remember something yields info that wasnt reportable on earlier attempt to remember
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Free Recall
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Procedure in which person studies a word list then reports as many words as he/she can remember
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Forced-Choice Recognition
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Procedure in which a person studies wordlist then chhooses which word appeared ont he list from pairs of words
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Signal Detection Theory
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Approach to analyszing a persons memory for an event (or comprehension fo a message) thats sensitive to fact that responses are biased b the rewards and penalties for correct and incorrect yes/no answers
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Infantile Amnesia
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Phenomenon of adults being unable to remember what the fuck happened before age 3-4
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Subliminal perception
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Perception and processing of weak stimuli w/o conscious awareness that any stimulus has occured
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Explicit Memory
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memory that can be consciously recalled or recognized
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Implicit memory
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Memory thats not consciously recalled but that nevertheless influences behavior or thought
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Anterograde Amnesia
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The inability to form new conscious memories
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Hydraulic Displacement Model
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Freud. Suggests that unacceptable impulses build up like steam in a boiler and MUST be released
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