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| Your characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| List the 4 goals of personality theories |
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1.To provide a way of organizing the many characteristics you know about yourself and others.
2.To explain the differences among people.
3.To explore how people conduct their lives.
4.To determine how life can be improved. |
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| many of our feelings, especially the painful ones, are not forgotten, but are stored where? |
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| controls our needs, drives, instincts, and repressed material. |
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| Mostly conscious, Center of your personality, Strives on demands from the id and the superego, Reality part of your personality |
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| Moral part of your personality, Inhibits the impulses, Conscience |
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| Defends and protects the ego from getting hurt and experiencing frustration, conflict, or feelings of unworthiness. |
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| making up acceptable excuses for our behavior |
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| pushing thoughts that may cause anxiety into the unconscious to get rid of it. |
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| refusing to accept the reality of things. |
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| believing that impulses are coming form other people instead of yourself. “I’m not jealous, she is” |
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| replacing an unacceptable feeling or urge with another one. |
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| going back to an earlier and less mature pattern of behavior. |
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| taking your anger or frustrations out on someone or something else. |
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| redirecting your emotions onto something else. |
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| Freud's Theory in which the personality develops through the sexual pleasure drive, the Id |
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| the distinct pleasure-sensitive areas, which are mouth, anus, genital area, are called |
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| child does not progress normally but remains in a stage of development |
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1 - 1 1/2 years of age
Important event is weaning
Pleasure centers on the mouth: Sucking, biting, holding mouth closed |
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| a child can develop pessimism, envy, or suspicious is weaned too early in what stage |
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| a child can develop optimism or become gullible if overindulged in this atage |
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| most important stage, toilet trained, 1 ½ - 2 years |
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messy, disorganized, reckless, careless, defiant
happens when the parent is too lenient |
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| This occurs when a child tries to retain feces, Enjoy going against the parents will, This stage can permanently affect the Childs attitude toward authority |
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| 3-6 years, Main purpose is for the child to identify with the same sex parent. |
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| unconscious desire to sexually possess the mother. |
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| females develop "penis envy", the only way to posses the father is to take on female characteristics |
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| sexual feelings are dormant |
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1. Sexual interest turns to heterosexual relationships,
2.Child learns the rules of interaction with the opposite sex,
3.Discovers the type of person they are sexually attracted to. |
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