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
Alfred Adler; a pattern o avoiding feelings of inadequacy rather than trying to overcome their source
Inferiority complex
Personality
The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person
Belief that the proper subject matter of psychology is object observable behavior
Behaviorism : b.f. Skinner
The occurrence of rewards and punishments following particular behaviors
Contingencies of reinforcement
Albert bandura
Social cognitive theory - observational learning
Self- actualization
The humanist term for realizing ones unique potential
An individual whose person and self coincide
Fully functioning
Perception that individuals significant other value what They are
Unconditional positive regard