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| the consistent and distinctive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in which an indiv. engages |
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Conscious Mind
((tip of iceberg/ executive mediator)) |
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the relatively small part of our mind that we are aware of momentarily
very small part of our mind |
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| mental processes that are not currently conscious but could become so at any moment |
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thoughts, desires, feelings, and memories that are not consciously available to us but non the less shape our everyday behavior
not aware, but shapes our personality |
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unconscious part of mind, basic drives for reproduction, survival, and aggression
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE- the id wants to consistently statisfy as quickly and directly as possible, whatever desire is active |
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| internalization of society's norm and values into the individual mind |
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mediator balances both drives
decision making part
ego (conscious part) in contact with EXTERNAL REALITY
ego (unconscious part) in contact with id!
Reality Principle: process by which ego seeks to delay gratification of id desires until appropriate outlets and situations can be found |
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| Stages of Psychosexual development |
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oral
anal
phalic
latency
genital (puberty onward) |
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Ego's method of keeping threatening material out of conscious
-Repression
-Rationalization
-Reaction Formation ((opposite reaction))
-Displacement ((acting out on someone more acceptable, not your teacher)))
-Projection
-Regression |
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| deemphasized sexual desires, more motivated for desire for psychological growth |
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| Unconditional Positive Regard |
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| loving acceptance regardless of what you do |
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| Conditional Positive Regard |
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| if child with this, develop INSECURE ATTACHMENT STYLE |
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| Maslow's Self Actualization |
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feeling on top of the world
stresses maximizing one's potential |
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found in all age groups and all cultures
openness
women more likely to be agrreable and neuroticism
FOUND IN WHICH SPECIES OF ANIMALS??
neurotic animal good for being on alert |
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| Fixed sequence of childhood developmental states during which the id primarily seeks sexual pleasure by focusing its energies on DISTINCT EROGENOUS ZONES |
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| tendency to persist in pleasure-seeking behaviors associated with an earlier psychosexual stage during which conflicts were UNRESOLVED ((too much or too little)) |
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| FIRST psychosexual stage of development where child derives pleasure by engaging in oral activities |
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contest of wills
being forced to urinate/defecate in focused area
-harsh toilet training will make child NEAT and ORDERLY
-relaxed toilet training will make child MESSY and have DIFFICULTY complying with authority |
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3rd stage of psychosexual development which child derives pleasure from masturbation
children form erotic attachment to opposite sex parent and see same sex parent as COMPETITION
how children INTERNALIZE parent's values |
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4th stage being RELATIVELY CALM
dramatic struggles of oral, anal, and phallic stages forgotten by ego |
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final stage where one begins to have mature sexual feelings toward another
ego learns to manage/direct these feelings |
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| EGO's method of keeping threatening and unacceptable material out of CONSCIOUSNESS, therefore reducing anxiety |
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| very basic DEFENSE MECHANISM which people remove anxiety-arousing thoughts from the conscious mind |
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| offering seeminly logical self-justifying explanations for attitutes, beliefs, bahviorsin place of the real, unconscious reasons |
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acting exact opposite of what we truly feel ((unacceptable feelings i.e. sexual desires in middle of day and hiding it))
preventing unacceptable feelings or ideas from being directly expressed by expressing opposing feelings or ideas |
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directing sexual/aggressive urges toward objects that are more acceptable than the one actually stimulating feelings
i.e. instead of being mad at teacher, go home and be mad at little sister (more acceptable) |
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we percieve our own aggressive or sexual urges, not in ourselves, but in others
pointing out in someone else without pointing out flaw in self |
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defense mechanism in retreating to a more infantile developmental stage
i.e. talking like a baby is stressful situation as an adult |
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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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| diverse group of theories descended from the work of SIGMUND FREUD that asserts that behavior is controlled by unconscious forces |
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Alfred Adler
Individual Psychology |
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feelings of inferiority motivate them to acquire new skills and develop untapped potential
compensation: process of striving to overcome inferiority
overcompensation: when inferiority is EXCESSIVELY strong, people seek OUTWARD symbols, Status, Power, Money, etc. |
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Carl Jung
Analytical Psychology |
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people are motivated by desire for psychological growth and wholeness ((need for individuation))
HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE: humans motivated to quest for personal growth |
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part of unconscious containing inherited memories shared by ALL HUMAN BEINGS
Archetypes: God, mom, dad, etc |
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degree to which we think outcomes depend on our actions and personal character
Internal Locus of Control: we are in control of our outcomes
External Locus of Control: the environment determines our outcomes |
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