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| an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| What was Freud's professional background? |
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| Why did Freud become interested in unconscious personality dynamics in his patients? |
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| His work with hysteria led him to believe people had repressed memories/emotions in an unconsciousness |
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| Freud's conception of the conscious |
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| those ideas that we are aware of at any given moment |
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| Freud's conception of the Unconscious |
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| experiences/thoughts/memories that we are unaware of because they are unacceptable to us. |
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| which did Freud believe was more important in guiding our day to day behavior? |
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| did Freud believe that most of our mind was hidden or conscious |
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| did Freud believe that most of our mind was hidden or conscious |
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| why did Freud believe we repress memories |
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| unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories |
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| What is free association? |
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| in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. |
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| a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy taht, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. (operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. "DEVIL ON SHOULDER" |
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| the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that according to Freud, balances the demands of the id, super ego and reality. the ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain. |
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| the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (The concious) "ANGEL ON SHOULDER" |
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| Freud's five stages of psychosexual development. |
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| Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital |
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| according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psycho sexual sage, in which conflicts were unresolved. |
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| according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psycho sexual sage, in which conflicts were unresolved. |
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| why did Freud believe that abnormal development would occur. |
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| occurs in early childhood, the person undergoes traumatic experiences-almost sexual in nature-that prevents teh flow of significant amounts of libidinal energy through the various stages. |
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| according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rial father. |
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| what stage are boys most likely to experience Oedipus complex, |
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| 3-6yrs of age (phallic stage) |
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| what are defense mechanisms |
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| in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. |
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| in psychoanalytic theory, teh basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thought, feelings, and memories from consciousness. |
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| psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to an earlier stage of development |
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| psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which we disguise our own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. |
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| psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, but more threatening, unconscious reasons for our actions |
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| psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet. |
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| discuss two important ways that neo0Freudians disagree with Freud's original theories. |
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| placed more emphasis on the role of the conscious mind. they doubted that sex and aggression were all consuming motivations, instead they tended to emphasize loftier motives and social interactions. |
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| does modern research support Greud's notion of repression? |
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| no repression of memories, anxiety causing memories stored in our unconscious do not motivate behavior |
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| human sexuality was important, childhood experiences are important, therapy is helpful |
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| differences between humanistic and psychoanalytic perspectives |
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| In contrast to Freud's emphasis on disorders born out of dark conflicts, the humanistic psychologists focused on the ways "healthy" people strive for self-determination and self realization.(asked people to report their own experiences instead of testing them) |
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| a characteristic pattern of behavior or a tendency to feel and act in a certain way, as assessed by self-reports on a personality test. |
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| are trait theorists more concerned with describing personality traits or explaining them? |
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| The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. One of the most frequently used personality tests in mental health. The test is used by trained professionals to assist in identifying personality structure and psychopathology. |
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| the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots |
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| what type of psychologist would most likely use a Rorschach test? |
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| The Big Five personality factors |
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| Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion (CANOE) |
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Organized----disorganized
careful------careless
disciplined--impulsive |
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Soft-hearted--ruthless
trusting-------suspicious
helpful-----uncooperative |
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calm------------anxious
secure----------insecure
self-satisfied--self-pitying |
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imaginative------practical
prefers variety--prefers routine
indepenedent-----conforming |
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sociable-----retiring
fun-loving---sober
affectionate-reserved |
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| define the spotlight effect |
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| overestimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders(as if we presume a spotlight shines on us) |
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| our readiness to perceive ourselves favorably |
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| Does research on self-perception reveal that people view themselves as better than average or worse than average in regards to desirable personality traits? |
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| What is the difference between values that are important to collectivistic and individualistic cultures. |
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| individualistic cultures all about yourself over group, where group is about the group not yourself |
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