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Title: Personality Unit

Description: Freud,Jung,Horney,Adler,Skinnner,Bandura,Maslow

Total Flash Cards: 12

Created: 11/02/2005 19:27:32

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Dr. Sigmund Freud - Background
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Austrian (d. 1930): couldn't find physical/mental reason his patients could TELL him why they were sick (unaware of this) - therefore: Unconcious exisits!!!
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Freud's Personality theory:
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ID, Ego, Superego
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ID
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- unconcious part of personality - composed of INSTINCTUAL desires or needs: hunger, sleep, sex, bathroom - doesn't operate in reality - not rational
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Pleasure Principle
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- ID creates needs, increases tension on concious part of the personality until satisfied
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Ego
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- The concious part of your personality - Born w/ the capacity to develop ego - Ego develops w/ experience - Function: to find real world solutions to ID's desires - THIS DOES NOT make the decision, merely comes up w/ and presents options
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Superego
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- concious part of personality too - born w/ the capacity to develop this too - Function: decide which option of EGO is the best - uses rationality and morality - build it w/ experience and guidance from others - guilt! only humans have this as we are the only ones to grasp the concept of right/wrong
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In a normal (Freudian) Personality:
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The three systems work together and balance. Most ppl can't achieve this balance
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Problems w/ Freud:
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All REALLY subjective
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Abnormal Personalities
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ID dominant: impulsive, selfish, greedy, rude, frustrating Ego dominant: cold, robotic, devoid of desire, routine oriented Superego dominant: overly moral, religious, may project judgements onto others
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Freudian Psychoanalysis
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-really SUBJECTIVE TOOLS: - Hypnosis - Rohroschach Ink Blots - Word Associations - Picture tests/story tests - Dream Analysis (real/symbolic) Interview Session: - Goal: to create a pattern of infor that MATCHES info found by other tools (not eye contact, relaxed position) TOOLS + Interview: can create a theme: the unconcious
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End of Freud
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lives long enought to see theories discredited dies a lonely bitter man IMPORTANCE? The DIRECTION he led psych. in
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Carl Jung
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Swiss (d. 1961) FFF (former Freud follower) believes in unconcious, but two parts to it



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