| Term | Definition |
|---|
| personality | a person's broad long-lasting patterns of behavior |
| psychoanalysis | theory that personality is based on impulses and needs from the unconscious and on childhood experience |
| Freud (Sigmund) | developed the pschoanalytic perspective to personality |
| unconscious | the part of our mind or personality that contains information or conflicts of which we are not aware and have no access to |
| free association | Freudian technique where a patients says anything that comes to mind and thereby reveals true unconscious material |
| repression | the process of pushing needs and desires that cause guilt or fear into the unconscious |
| libido | Freudian idea of internal energy force that seeks discharge in sexual or aggressive actions |
| id | part of our psyche (mind/personality) that contains our basic survival needs and primal drives such as sex, aggression - very much like an animal |
| ego | part of our psyche (mind/personality) that balances desires of the id and superego - the "self" |
| superego | part of our psyche (mind/personality) that holds our moral code, our conscience |
| oral stage | first of the psychosexual stages of development in which weaning is the major obstacle to overcome |
| anal stage | second of Freud's psychosexual stages in which potty-training is the key part of development |
| phallic stage | third part of Freud's psychosexual stages of development in which the Oedipus complex emerges |
| Oedipus complex | Freudian theory that little boys have their first sexual feelings toward their mothers and must seek to identify with the father instead of compete with him |
| Jung (Carl) | a disciple of Freud, one of the neo-Freudians - believed in the collective unconscious |
| archetypes | Jung's term for inherited universal human concepts such as hero, mother, underdog) |
| collective unconscious | Jung;s term for the portion of a person that contains ideas shared by the whole human race |
| persona | Jung's term for a "mask" people wear to hide their real selves in different situations |
| neo-Freudians | psychologists who believed in the unconscious, but thought it had more to do with social interactions than deep sexual and aggressive urges |
| Erikson (Erik) | Developed a theory of 8 stages of development - there is a major confilct to overcome at each stage |
| Identity vs. Identity Confusion | the stage of Erikson's model that adolescents are at as they try to define who they are and what they value |
| Bandura (Albert) | believed personality is formed in large part from modeling our behaviors on those we observe around us |
| modeling | learning by imitating others |
| ideal self | the humanist idea that we all have a perfect version of ourselves that we try to live up to |
| fully functioning individual | humanist idea of who we are once we behave the way we feel we should (live up to our ideal selves) |
| Maslow (Abraham) | developed a sequence of needs that we fill in order and developed the idea of self-actualization |
| self-actualized | Maslow's term for a person who has realized the full potential of his or her skills and abilities |
| personality traits | more or less permanent personality characteristics (agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, etc.) |
| 16 personality factors | theory of personality developed by Raymond Cattell that argues we have a certain set number of personality traits |
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