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Psych 99 Exam 1
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Undergraduate 2
09/29/2007

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define personality
Definition
psychological qualities that contribute to an individual's enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving.
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5 requirements for evaluating personality theories
Definition
1. Observation that is scientific
2. Theory that is systematic
3. Theory that is testable
4. Theory that is comprehensive
5. Data-based theory can be practically applied.
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all personality theorists must address the conceptual issues of...
Definition
philosophical view of the person

internal/external determinants of behavior

consistency across time

Experience/action and concept of self

States of Awareness

Past/Present influences

Type of Theory: parts or the whole?
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Basic Approaches to personality
Definition
Psychodynamic
Phenomenological
Behavioral/Learning
Trait
Biological/Socioevolutionary
Cognitive
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Key Ideas of Freud's Psychodynamic Viewpoint
Definition
1. Psychic determinism
2. Closed energy system
3. basic instincts- drives
4. Unconscious motivation
5. Internal structure
6. Psychic conflict
7. Defense mechanisms
8. Developmental stages
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Freud's psychodynamic theory
Definition
our behavior isn't really i our control.
it is the unconscious motivating the conscious self.
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psychic determinism
Definition
nothing happens by chance
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Three levels of consciousness
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unconscious
largest, but unaware

preconscious
available, but not currently

conscious
what we are aware of
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Freud encouraged his patients to do this in his sessions...
Definition
free association

rambling-
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ID
Definition
translates body needs into drives
resevior of psychic energy
primitive, chaotic
illogical
inaccessible to consciousness
"wants!!"
primary process thinking
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EGO
Definition
executive of personality
constrains id to reality
secondary process thinking
searches to fufil desires.
gets energy from id

must deal with the unrealistic wants of the id,and superego. it must be the balance
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SUPEREGO
Definition
grows from the eg

internalizes morals and values
develops- age 5
keeps track of rewards
UNREALISTIC DEMANDS FOR PERFECTION
two parts:
1. conscience (guilt)
2. ego ideal (anxiety, inferiority)
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3 levels of mental life
Definition
conscious

preconscious

unconscious
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primary process thinking
Definition
the language of the unconscious

illogical, irrational
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secondary process thinking
Definition
language of consciousness, reality testing, logic
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anxiety
Definition
in psychoanalytic theory, a painful emotional experience that signals or alerts the ego to danger
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3 types of Anxiety
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objective anxiety

neurotic anxiety

moral anxiety
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Objective anxiety
Definition
an actual danger
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Neurotic Anxiety
Definition
id impulses

direct conflict between id and ego
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Moral anxiety
Definition
conflict between ego and superego

ego must be the coper/mediator
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how do we deal with anxiety????
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Defense mechanisms
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what is freud's definition of mental health??
Definition
"to love and to work"
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Defense mechanisms
Definition
denial
repression
displacement
projection
isolation
identification
regression
reaction formation
rationalization
sublimation
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denial
Definition
no recognition
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repression
Definition
motivated FORGETTING
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projection
Definition
puts what is internal(unconscious) and unacceptable, ONTO others,

ie: a hostile person recognizing hostility in others
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displacement
Definition
threatening
displaces an unacceptable impulse onto a non-threatening target

(hitting a wife, because boss sucks)
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isolation
Definition
stripping emotion from the threatening event
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regression
Definition
kids who've been potty trained may forget how to, when the new baby is born
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reaction formation
Definition
an individual defends against expression of an unacceptable impulse by only recognizing and expressing its opposite.
priest/sexual conduct
nice guy who goes on a killing rampage
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rationalization
Definition
we recognize the action, but distort the underlying reason for acting
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sublimation
Definition
ability to put impulses to good use

aggressive impulses--> boxer, butcher, surgeon
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erogenous zones
Definition
freud's regions of the body where instinctual drives tend to center
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how do the forbidden impulses leak out??
Definition
parapraxes

(forgetting, freudian slips)

(humor)
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development
Definition
Oral phase
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
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oral phase
Definition
time: first 18 months
pleasure/tension: lips, tongue, mouth
theme: dependency
conflict: feeding- receiving/taking food

fixation: adult who is oral incrporative or oral sadistic
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erikson's definition of mental health
Definition
successful navigation of stages

(agreed with Freud)
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epigenetic
Definition
predetermined order,

each stage builds on the previous one

must go through stages IN ORDER
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anal phase
Definition
time: 18mo-3 yrs
pleasure/tension: anal sphincter
theme: control
conflict: toilet-training

fixation: adult who is anal expulsive/ anal retentive
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phallic stage
Definition
time: 3-5yrs
pleasure: genitals
theme: what it means to be a boy/girl
conflict: Oedipal, identification of super-ego
boys- castration anxiety
girls-penis envy
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latency stage
Definition
from age 6 until puberty
lack of specific sexual conflicts
developmental breather
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genital stage
Definition
puberty- until later life
libido is focused on genitals
theme: creation, life enhancement
this stage is only reached after resolving previous conflicts
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strong ______ replaces the destroyed Oedipus complex in males
Definition
superego
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Oedipal Complex- Female
Definition
penis envy wants a penis, sexual desires for father, hostile towards mother figures out that oeditpal desires are self defeating identifies with mother weak super ego replaces partially destroyed oedpis complex
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goal of psychoanalysis
Definition
to make the unconscious conscious
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techniques in psychoanalysis
Definition
free association
dream analysis
projective techniques
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source of psychic energy

(psychoanalysis- Freud)
Definition
instincts (sex and aggression)
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four-fold typology
Definition
1)low anxiety-low defensiveness- true low anxious
2) high anxiety-low defensiveness(true high-anxious)
3)low anxiety- high defensiveness) repressors
4) high anxiety- high defensiveness(defensive high anxious)
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Jung
1875-1961
Definition
collective unconscious
balance rather than conflict
broader view of libido
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female archetype in men
Definition
anima
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male archetype in women
Definition
animus
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self
Definition
most comprehensive of all archetypes
unites other archetypes
reconciler of opposites

not ego, which only represents consciousness
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two Jungian attitudes
Definition
introversion

extroversion
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Jungian 4 functions of pscyhe
Definition
thinking
feeling
sensing
intuition
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adler strived to overcome...
Definition
inferiority

death
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if compensation fails for overcoming inferiorty than these complexes form:
Definition
inferiority

superiority
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three life tasks

(Adler)
Definition
1)societal
2) Occupational
3) Love and Marriage
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goals of psychotherapy
Definition
encourage greater emphasis on social interest
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1st erikson stage of psychosocial development
Definition
trust v mistrust
birth-18mo

gain: hope
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2nd psychosocial stage
18mo-3years
Definition
autonomy v shame and doubt

gain: will
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initiative v guilt
4-6
Definition
gain: purpose
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industry v inferiorty
Definition
6-12 years of age
gain: competency
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ego identity v. role confusion
Definition
adolescence
gain: fidelity
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pscyhosocial stage


early adulthood
Definition
intimacy v. isolation

gain: love
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generativity v. stagnation
middle adultood
Definition
gain:

caring
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ego integrity v. despair
Definition
late adulthood

gain: wisdom
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phenomenological viewpoint
(rogers)
Definition
our perception of reality is what matters
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Rogers
Definition
people are good
free will is important
self actualizationn
we want to improve ouselves
we trust our feelings
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requirements for therapeutic environment

(rogers)
Definition
psychological contact
client is incongruent
therapist is CONGRUENT-GENUINE
UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD
EMPATHY
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the big five
Definition
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extrovert/Introvert
Agreeablness
Neorticism
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Allport
Definition
a unique pattern of traits which resides within individual and generates behavior
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Q-sort
Definition
predicts drug behavior
welfare
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congruence
Definition
rogers' concept expressing an absence of conflict between perceived self and experience
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