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35. Personalities -- Psycholanalytic Flashcards

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dude in the late 19th to early 20th C

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Sigmund Freud

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believed a massive set of 1. ________ issues determined our 2. _________ and 3. _________

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  1. unconscious
  2. personalities
  3. behaviors
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the 1. ________ is full of 2. __________ passions, memories, and thoughts we 3. _____

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  1. unconscious
  2. unacceptable
  3. repress
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forcibly block from our conscious mind

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repress

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  1. ________ feelings could 2. _______ themselves secretly or 3. ________ in 4. ________ forms
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  1. troublesome
  2. manifest
  3. unknowingly
  4. disguised
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how troublesome feelings can manifest themselves (4)

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  1. work we choose (football player)
  2. beliefs (death)
  3. habits (smokers)
  4. symptoms (blindness due to trauma)
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freud believed 1. _______ motives 2. ______ b/w our primitive 3. _____, 4. ______, and sense of 5. _______ and 6. _______

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  1. unconscious
  2. battle
  3. instincts
  4. traumas
  5. morality
  6. society
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what are the three parts to the theory of our minds?

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  1. Id
  2. Ego
  3. Superego
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pleasure principle – driven by the need to survive, reproduce, aggressive, seeks immediate gratification –> devil on our shoulder

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Id

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responds to the real world, manages, remediates Id and Superego

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Ego

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conscience and moral compass –> how we OUGHT to behave –> angel on our shoulder

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Superego

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what are the psychosexual stages?

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  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phallic
  4. latency
  5. gential
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(0-18 months) – fixation on mouth-sucking, biting, and chewing

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oral

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(18-36 months) – fixation on bowel + bladder control; coping w/ demands for control

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anal

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(3-6 yrs) – pleasure zone in the genitals; Oedipus Complex (boys @ moms); Electra Complex (girls @ dads);; adopt their morals and beliefs, and gender identity at this phase

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phallic

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(6-puberty) – phase of dormant sexual feelings

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latency

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(puberty +) – maturation of sexual feelings

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genital

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overindulging or being under stimulated in any phase could cause ______

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fixation

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pleasure seeking fr. the childhood stage in an adult personality (smoking, overeating, seeking attention, etc)

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fixation

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to freud, society forces us to 1. _______ our desires, our 2. ____ manages the 3. ______ experienced by controlling + 4. ______ the desires of the 5. __ usually for the form of 6. _______

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  1. control
  2. ego
  3. anxiety
  4. limiting
  5. Id
  6. repression
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banishing anxiety w/ mental defense mechanisims

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repression

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our 1. ________ reveal themselves in 2. ______ and slip of 3. _______

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  1. anxieties
  2. dreams
  3. tounge
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constantly repressing a desire and saying something relating to it(?)

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Freudian slip

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when conflicted about overindulgence or inadequacy in our early childhood stages or confronted w/ trauma, the 1. _______ would either seek to 2. _______ to a early-stage 3. ______ or block the 4. ______

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  1. brain
  2. indulge
  3. desire
  4. trauma
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what are the 7 types of repressions?
1. regression 2. reaction formation 3. projection 4. rationalization 5. displacement 6. sublimation 7. denial
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retreating to a more infantile stage of development (sucking on your thumb when you start school for the first time ever)
regression
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going back to your baby days and acting like a baby
regression
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switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites (replacing angry emotions at a person by displaying exaggerated friendliness)
reaction formation
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you REACT as a friend when really you're trying to FORM connections
reaction formation
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disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others (a thief thinks everyone is a thief)
projection
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you PROJECT yourself as a bitch so you think that everyone else is a bitch too.
projection
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offering self-justifying explanations in place of the more real, threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions (an alcoholic would say she's drinking w/ her friends to be sociable)
rationalization
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you try to have a RATIONAL (real)IZATION that eating another cupcake w/ mom isn't a bad thing
rationalization
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shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward more acceptable or less threatening object or person
displacement
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why brother DISPLACES his anger @ you when he's made at mom
displacement
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transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives (man w/ aggressive urges becomes a surgeon)
sublimation
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you SUBMIT to being unsociable by choosing a science career
sublimation
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refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities (a partner denies evidence of his loved one's affair)
denial
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your DENIAL when Hoya left Infinite (OT7)
denial
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what did psychoanalysts use to decode the unconscious? (4-6)
1. free association 2. hypnosis 3. dreams 4. projective tests 4a. inkblot tests (subjective answers) 4b. thematic appreception test (TAT) (image, make a story)
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say whatever comes to mind w/out fear of judgment
free association
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discover unconscious desires or problems
hypnosis
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gateway to unconscious --> interpretation of symbols and events w/in dreams to decode desires and issues of unconscious
dreams
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modern research has shown that 1. _______ is extremely 2. _____ in cases of 3. _______
1. repression 2. rare 3. trauma
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research has shown that 1. ________ childhood issues or bringing them to the surface 2. _______ treats patients of 3. ________ or 4. _________
1. resolving 2. rarely 3. anxiety 4. trauma
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psychoanalyst use ___________ ____ to attempt to decode an individual's unconscious mind
projective tests
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(psychodynamic) ---> personality tests w/ unclear stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics (polluted w/ inconsistent results)
projective tests
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makes a story about an ambiguous pic a clinician may presume any hopes, fears, or desires people see in the image are reflections of themselves and their unconsciousness
thematic appreception tests (TAT)
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(Herman Rorschach) -- show ambiguous inkblots and describe what you see (weapon or predatory animals? --maybe aggressive personality)
inkblot tests
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believed childhood social tensions are crucial for personality
Alfred Adler
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believed that much of behavior is driven to overcome childhood social tensions by EFFORTS TO CONQUER CHILDHOOD INFERIORITY FEELINGS that TRIGGER our STRIVINGS FOR SUPERIORITY ADN POWER
Alfred Adler
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collective unconscious --- believed in a common reservoir of images or arch types derived from our species universal experiences
Carl Jung
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mothers are seen as nurturers across cultures ----> modern research has discounted inherited experiences
Carl Jung

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