Ch 11 Flashcards
Personality
Unique and relative stable ways in which people think
Character
Value judgments of a person’s moral and ethical behavior
Temperament
The enduring characteristics with which each person is born
Unconscious mind
Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings memories and other info are kept that are mot easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness
Id
Part of these personality present at birth and completely unconscious
Pleasure principle
Principle by which the id functions; the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences
Ego
Part of th ed personality tha t develops out of a need with reality,mostly conscious rational and logical.
Superego
Part of the personality that acts as a moral center
Conscience
Part of superego that produces pride or guilt
Fixation
Disorder in whixh person does mot fully resolve thhe conflict in a particular psychosexual stage
Psychosexual stages
Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child
Oral stage
First stage occuring from 1 to 3 years of age in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict
Anal stage
Anus is erogeous zone and toilet training is source of conflict
Anal expulsive personality
Person fixated here is messy, destructive,and hostile
Anal retentive personality
Person fixated here is neat,fussy,stingy,and stubborn
Phallic stage
Child discovers sexual feelings
Ordipus complex
Situation occuring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite sex parent and jealousy of the same sex parent
Identification
Defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety
Latency
Fourth stage occuring durint the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways
Psychoanalysis
Freuds term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it
Neo freudians
Followers of Freud who develop their own competing psychodynamic theories
Personal unconscious
Jungs name for the unconscious mind as described by freud
Collective unconscious
Jungs name for the memories shared by all members of the human species
Archetypes
Jungs collective universal human memories
Basic anxiety
Anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world if older children and adults