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| A distinctive and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, behavior etc that characterizes an individual |
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| occurs when a threatening idea is blocked from memory |
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| when you have an undesirable/threatening belief or thought, and you attribute this belief/thought to someone else... ex, being racist yourself but knowing it's wrong, so calling your friend a racist |
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| when a person feels one way but dislikes this feeling, so acts in the opposite way. Ex, a closeted homosexual may act as though he hates gay people |
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| when a person reverts to a previous stage of psychological development during anxious or emotional times. |
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| When a person reuses to admit that something unpleasant is happening. |
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| A part of Freud's psychoanalytic theory; the idea that different forms of sexual energy during the maturation of a child help to form personality. 5 stages. |
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| a psychosexual stage. During the first year of life, when a baby experiences the world through their mouth (feeding, sucking, etc) |
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| becoming stuck at the current psychosexual stage |
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| occurs through ages 2 and 3, when toilet training and controlling bodily functions is key... child may grow up to be "anal retentive" (holding everything in), or "anal expulsive" (messy and unorganized) |
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| to Freud, the most important psychosexual stage... ages 3-6. Child unconsciously wishes to possess their parent of the opposite sex and get rid of their parent of the same sex... little girls often say "I'm going to marry Daddy when i grow up" |
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| when a child desires their parent of the opposite sex, and views their same sex parent as a rival |
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| the nonsexual stage of psychosexual theory, from ages 6- puberty |
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| beginning at puberty and leading to adult sexuality |
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| when displacement ends up benefitting society or their higher culture, ex a celibate priest writes renound poetry about sex. |
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| developed by Carl Jung. The belief that in additional to a person's own unconscious, people share a vast collective unconscious, which contain universal memories, symbols and themes, which are referred to as archetypes. |
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| Universal, symbolic images that are present in myths, stories and art |
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| the feminine archetype in males. |
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| the male archetype in females. |
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