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04/26/2015

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personality

Definition
person's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
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5 psychosexual stages
Definition

oral

anal 

phallic

latency 

genital 

Freud- ID's pleasure seeking energies focus on erongenous zones 

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oral stage
Definition

1st stage 1 year old 

pleasure centers on the mouth: biting, sucking, and chewing 

Primary conflict: weaning off bottle or nursing 

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Anal stage
Definition

2nd stage 1-3 years old 

pleasure foucuses on going to restroom and control of bladder

 

Conflict: tiolet training 

 

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Phallic Stages
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3rd stage 3-6 years old (superego develops)

sexual feelings can develop electra/ oedipus complex 

 

Pleasure zone is genitals 

 

Conflict incestuous sexual feelings 

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Latency Stage
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4th stage 6 years- puberty 

Dormant sexual feelings 

Same-sex play (boys have cooties)

developing social skills 

 

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Genital Stage
Definition

5th and last stage puberty and on 

expressing sexual feelings 

 

Maturation of sexual interests

 

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Electra/oedipus complex
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3-6 years old 

sexual desires toward your parent of the opposite sex and jealousy toward the other parent 

 

i.e.- boy has sexual feelings for his mother and jealousy toward his father 

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fixation
Definition

stuck in a stage relevent to an unresolved past conflict that stunted things

 

Freud:example-if oral fixation the person may smoke, suck thumb, or exessively eat 

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superego
Definition

moral imperatives 

both conscious and unconious 

develops around age 4-5 

based around family and society 

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ego

 

Definition

reality principle 

makes peace between ID adn superego 

 

develops as a toddler 

is the speaker of the socailly exceptable way 

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ID
Definition

pleasure principle 

completely unconcious 

 

Start life with this. wants instant gratification 

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behavior influences
Definition

Genetic factor 

shared environmental factors 

non-shared environmental factors 

 

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sigmund Freud
Definition

founder of psychoanalytic movement 

 

Around during victorian era and had this beliefs 

- sex repression

- sex for procreation

- mistresses satisfied mens "uncontrolable" sexual desires

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psychoanalytic theory of personality
Definition

Psychis derteminism: 

-All psychological events have a cause 

symbolic meaning:

-All actions are meaningful

Unconscious motivation:

-We rarely understand why we do things 

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6 anxiety and defense mechanisms
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regression

reaction formation

projection

reationalization

displacement 

denial 

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repression
Definition

motivated forgetting of emotionall threatening memories or impulses

 

Freud believed that this is the basic mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing impules and enables other defenses 

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denial
Definition
motivated forgetting of distressing external experiences
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regression
Definition
act of returning psychologically to a younger, and typically simpler and safer age
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reaction formation
Definition
transformation of an anxiety provoking emotion into its opposite
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projection
Definition

unconscious attribution of our negative characteristics onto others 

 

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displacement
Definition
directing an impulse from a socailly unacceptable target onto a safer and more socailly acceptable one
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rationalization
Definition
providing resonable sounding explanations for unreasonable behaviors or failures
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carl jung theories
Definition

talked about themes in the unconscious as a source of creativity and insight. 

found opportunities for personal growth by finging meaning in moments of coincidence

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alfred adler theories
Definition

may have projected from his own experience 

focused on the fight against feelings inferiority as a theme at the core of personality 

 

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karen horney
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didnt like freud for his ideas that women were weak and subordinate to men 

 

she highlighte dthe need to feel secure in relationships 

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projective tests
Definition

structured, systematic exposure to a standardized ser of ambiguoues prompts, designed to reveal inner dynamics 

 

ink blobs

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trait
Definition

People: allport, eysenck, mccrae, costa 

an enduring quality that makes a person tend to act a certain way 

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MMPI 

Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory 

Definition
assesses abnormal personality tendencies rather than normal personality traits
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gordon allport
Definition

interviewed Freud when allport was a student 

and eventually came to describe personality in terms of fundamental traits

he came to define personality in terms of identifiable behavior patterns 

 

concerned more with describing and less with explainging

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trait theory of personality
Definition
that we are made up of a collection of traits, behavioral predispostions that can be identified and mesured, traist that differe from person to person
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extraverts
Definition

brain activity is low so they seek stimulation 

dopamine and dopamine realated neural activity tend to be higher

 

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eysenck's
Definition

created the factor analysis that studied the personality demensions 

 

it identifies factors that tend to cluster 

your either extraverted or introverted 

these are related to genetics

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3 trait questionaires
Definition

personality inventory 

-which behaviors and responses the person would choose 

empirically derived test 

and 

MMPI 

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big 5 personality factors
Definition

conscientiosness 

agreeableness 

neuroticism 

openness

extraversion 

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questions about traits
Definition

Their stability 

Predeictive value 

heritability 

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social cognitive
Definition

people: albert bandura 

interaction between a person and their socail context involving how we think about ourselves adn our situations

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psychodynamic
Definition

People: jung, adler, horney 

the unconscious and conscious minds interact. childhood experiences and defense mechanisms are important 

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Humanistic
Definition

People: rogers, maslow 

rather that examining the struggles of sick people, its better to focus on the ways healthy people strive for self-realization

 

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spotlight effect
Definition
assuming that pepople are having attention focused on you when they actually may not be noticing you
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self esteem
Definition

high/normal 

-resistance to conformity, less harm from bullying, and increased resilience and efforts to improve their own mood 

Low 

- leads to problems, prejuduce, critical of others 

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social psychology
Definition
scienticstudy of how individuals behave, think, and feel in social situations
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