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Personality Theory Exam 2
Horney's Theory, Sullivan's Theory, & Erikson's Theory (ABSENT)
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
02/29/2012

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Basic Hostility
Definition

 

 

If parents do not satisfy the child's needs for safety and satisfaction

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Basic Anxiety

Definition

 

 

repressed hostility that leads to profound feelings of insecurity and vague feelings of aprehension

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Defenses against basic anxiety

Definition

1) Affection

 

2) Submissiveness

 

3) Power

 

4) Withdrawal

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Affection

Definition

defense against basic anxiety

 

try to gain other people's love artificially

(buying gifts, compliance, or even sexual favors)

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Submissiveness

Definition

defense against basic anxiety

 

may submit themselves to institutions, people, or religion

 

neurotics usually use this in order to gain affection

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Power

Definition

defense against basic anxiety

 

defense against real or imagined hostility of others by way of dominance

 

two methods of power are PRESTIGE and POSSESSION

 

 

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Withdrawal

Definition

defense against basic anxiety

 

becoming emotionally detached and/or developing an extreme independence from people

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10 Neurotic Needs

Definition

1) affection + approval

2) powerful partner

3) to restric one's life within narrow borders

4) power

5) to exploit others

6) social recognition

7) personal admiration

8) ambition and personal achievement

9) self sufficiency and independence

10) perfection and unassailability

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Neurotic Trends

Definition

1) Moving toward poeple

 

2) Moving against people

 

3) Moving away from people

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Moving Towards people

Definition

 

 1) affection + approval

 

2) powerful partner

 

3) to restric one's life within narrow borders

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Moving Against People

Definition

 

 4) power

5) to exploit others

6) social recognition

7) personal admiration

8) ambition and personal achievement

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Moving Away From People

Definition

 

9) self sufficiency and independence

 

10) perfection and unassailability

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Idealized Self-Image

Definition

an intrapsychic conflict

 

an attempt to solve conflicts by painting a godlike picture of oneself

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Self Hatred

Definition

an intrapsychic conflict

 

an interrelated yet equally irrational and powerful tendency to despise one's real self due to inability to match real self to idealized self

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3 Aspects of the Idealized Self-Image

Definition

 

1) The Neurotic Search for Glory

 

2) Neurotic Claims

 

3) Neurotic Pride

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The Neurotic Search for Glory

Definition

 

comprehensive drive towards actualizing the ideal self

 

self-idealization: need for perfection, neurotic ambition, and the drive toward a vindictive triumph

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Neurotic Claims

Definition

 

creation of fantasy world where the neurotic person feels need to be treated the way they see it in their minds

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Neurotic Pride

Definition

 

 

false pride not based on a realistic view of the true self but on a spurious image of the idealized self

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 6 Methods of

Expressed Self-Hatred

Definition

1) Relentless demands on the self

2) Merciless Self-Accusation

3) Self Contempt

4) Self-Frustration

5) Self-Torment

6) Self-Destructive Actions + Impulses

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Tension

Definition

 

a potentiality for action that may or may not be experienced in awareness

 

1) needs: results in positive actions

2) anxiety: results in nonproductive behaviors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Energy Transformations

Definition

 

 

behaviors that are aimed at satisfying needs and reducing anxiety

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Tenderness

Definition

 

 

most basic interpersonal need; requires actions from two people (baby cries, mom reacts)

 

two types of needs: general and zonal

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General Need

Definition

 

 

 

is concerned with the overall well-being of a person

(oxygen, food, water, etc.)

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Zonal Need

Definition

 

 

needs that arise from a particular area of the body

(hands needs to touch, eyes need to blink, etc.)

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 Needs

Definition

 

 

Tensions brought on by biological imbalance between a person and physiochemical enviornment

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Anxiety

Definition

disjunctive, diffuse, + vague

 

stems from complex interpersonal situations

 

main destructive force blocking the development of healthy interpersonal relationships

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 Dynamisms

Definition

 

 

typical behavior patterns that characterize a person throughout a lifetime

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Disjunctive dynamisms

Definition

 

 

 

destructive patterns of behavior that are related to the concept of malevolence

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Isolating Dynamisms

Definition

 

 

 

those behavior patterns (like lust) that are unrelated to interpersonal relations

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Conjunctive Dynamisms

Definition

 

 

 

beneficial behavior patterns (like intimacy)

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Malevolence 

 

Definition

Disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred

 

characterized by the feeling of living amongst one's enemies

 

if parents use physical pain or harsh remarks to control child's behavior, child will withold need for tenderness and adopt this attitude

 

takes form of timidity, mishiveousness, cruelty, or other antisocial behavior

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Intimacy

Definition

grows out of earlier need for tenderness

 

involves a close interpersonal relationship between two people of equal status

 

developes prior to puberty; NOT sexual

 

draws out loving reactions

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Lust

Definition

 

isolating tendency

 

requires no other person

 

leads to a reduction of self-esteem

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Self-System

Definition

 

consistent pattern of behaviors that maintains people's interpersonal security

 

developes at 12-18 mos.; develope ability to detect changes in anxiety (built in warning device)

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Dissociation

Definition

Self-System security operation

 

impulses, desires, and needs that a person refuses to allow into awareness

 

^results in manifestations in dreams and other unintentional activities

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Selective Inattention
Definition

Self-System security operation

 

 the refusal to see the things we don't want to see

 

more accessible to our awareness

("good" driver forgetting about laws he broke)

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Personifications

Definition

images of ourselves and others aquired over time

 

can be accurate or distorted

 

can develope 3 personifications from this:

1)bad mother, good mother 2) Me Personification

3) Eidetic Personification

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Bad Mother, Good Mother

Definition

similar to Klein's

 

grows out of experience with the "bad nipple"; completely undifferentiated

 

after bad image is formed, we aquire a good mother personification

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Me Personifications

Definition

Bad Me: from experiences of punishment and disapproval

 

Good Me: from experiences with reward and approval

 

Not Me: from severe anxiety; leads to dissociation or selective attention

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Eidetic Personifications

Definition

 

 

unrealistic traits or imaginary friends

 

as adults, see fictitous traits in others

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Levels of Cognition

Definition

ways of perceiving, imagining, and conceiving

 

Prototaxic Level

 

Parataxic Level

 

Syntaxic Level

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Prototaxic Level

Definition

level of cognition

 

earliest subjective experiences

 

beyond concious recall

 

as adults, take the form of momentary sensations

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Parataxic Level

Definition

 

level of cognition

 

experiences that are prelogical and result when illusory correlation is assumed

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Syntaxic Level

Definition

 

level of cognition

 

experiences that are consensually validated and can be accurately communicated to others

 

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