Personality Theory Final Part 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sigmund Freud | founder of psychodynamics. Theorized the Id, Ego, and Superego. Free Association. Oedipus complex |
| 1st Force in Psychology | This "wave" is Psychodynamics, led by Freud |
| Unconscious | below mental awareness the iceberg, what's under the ocean |
| Preconscious | Mental elements that are not currently in awareness but can be recalled into awareness with varying degrees of difficulty. Associated with Freud |
| conscious | Mental elements that are not currently in awareness but can be recalled into awareness with varying degrees of difficulty. Associated with Freud |
| Id | Aspect of personality associated with Freud, driven by the pleasure principle |
| Ego | Part of personality associated with Freud, driven by reality principle, mediates between the needs of the Id and the superego |
| Superego | Part of personality associated with Freud, driven by the moralistic principle, rule oriented, decide what is right and wrong. |
| Repression | Defense mechanism, forcing unwanted experiences into the unconscious to defend against pain and anxiety. |
| Reaction Formation | Defense Mechanism, Person represses one impulse and adopts the exact opposite form of behavior. Gay person protesting gay marriage. |
| Displacement | defense mechanism in which unwanted urges are directed onto other objects or people to disguise the original impulse. |
| Denial | defense mechanism, blocking of an experience or an aspect of it from awareness because it is inconsistent with self-concept |
| Fixation | in psychosexual development when an individual becomes stuck in a stage he is _________, defense mechanism that arises when psycic energy is blocked at one stage of development, thus making change or psychological growth difficult. |
| Regression | reverting of behaviors learned in earlier stages of life, defense mechanism. |
| Projection | defense mechanism, the ego reduces anxiety by attributing an unwanted impulse onto another person. A person who is always untidy with always say that his/her roommate is a slob. |
| Dissociation | defense mechanism, in which the process of separating unwanted impulses, desires, and needs from the self system. |
| compartmentalization | defense mechanism, putting areas of life into distict section not allowing them to intermix when there is a problem in one area, it cannot affect the other. |
| Sublimation | defense mechanism, repression of the genital aim of arrows, substitution my a cultural or social aim. Someone who is angry and wants to be aggressive, who instead goes running, which is socially acceptable. |
| Oral stage | Psychosexual development, pleasure from the mouth. 12 to 18 mo. of life. |
| Anal stage | Psychosexual development, pleasure from the excretory function, potty training, happens in the second year of life. |
| phallic stage | Psychosexual development, oedipus complex is navigated in this section, assocaited with knowing the difference between gender specific body parts. |
| Oedipus Complex | Frueds's most controversial theory. Boy identifies with mom, falls in love with mom, fears castration, realizes can't have mom, becomes like/identifies with dad, hopes to find woman like mom. |
| Latency stage | Psychosexual development, time between infancy and puberty when psychosexual development is at a stand still. |
| Genital stage | Psychosexual development, associated with adolescents, period of life beginning with puberty and continues into adulthood that is marked by full sexual identity. |
| Feudian slips | also called a paraprax, misreading or incorrectly saying something that is caused by unconscious wishes or desires. |
| Latent Content | the unconscious meaning of a dream, revealed through interpretation, Freud believed this was more important than what actually happened or was manifested. |
| Manifest Content | parts of the dream that are being described, surface or conscious level of a dream. |
| Psychoanalysis | Psychology as proposed by Freud, theory of personality, approach to Psychotherapy and methods of investigation. |
| Reality Principle | Ego is driven by this, what is possible versus what the superego and id want. |
| Pleasure Principle | Id is driven by this, instinctual or natural urges. |
| Idealistic/Moralistic principle | Superego is driven by this, rules and norms of what is right and wrong. |
| Libido | sex or pleasure seeking drive. |
| Defense Mechanisms | ways the ego diverts anxiety, not healthy to use all the time, but everybody uses them to some extent. |
| Transference | Strong undeserved feelings the patient/client develops toward the analysist during the course of treatment, stems from previous experiences about parents. |
| Parapraxis | a Freudian slip, as a result of unconsious wishes. |
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