Ch. 14 Theories Of Personailty Flashcards
Unconscious
Part of the mind that we are UNAWARE, but it influences conscious processes behaviors
Unconscious personality that contains our needs, drives, instincts and repressed materials
Id
Ego
Part of personality that is in touch with reality and strives to meet the demands of id and superego
Part of personality that is the source of conscience and counteracts the socially undesirable impulses of the id
Superego
Id represents ……..
Ego……..
Superego…..
Id- what the person wants to do
Ego - plans what she can do
Superego - advocates what she should do
Certain specific means by which the who unconsciously protects itself against unpleasant impulses
Defense mechanisms
“The test questions were bad; they didn’t make sense”
Rationalization
When a person has painful memories and unacceptable thought and motives that the ego too much anxiety, she may push those thoughts into unconscious
Repression
The ego avoids anxiety is to believe that impulses coming from within are really coming from other people
Projection
Reaction formation
Involves replacing an unacceptable feeling or urge with an opposite one
Going back to less mature pattern of behavior
Regression
Redirecting a forbidden desire into a socially acceptable desire
Sublimation
When you can’t take out your anger on the source of your frustrations, you displace it or take it out on less powerful people
Displacement
Carl Jung; the part of the mind that contains inherited instincts, urges, and memories common to all people
Collective unconscious
Am inherited idea, based on the experience of one’s ancestors, which shapes one’s perception of the world
Archetype