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Ch 4: Neo Analytic & Ego Aspects of Personality Flashcards

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Most thoughts, feelings, motives, defenses, and desires are:

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Unconscious

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Personality growth involves moving from an immature state to:

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A mature, independent state.

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Commonalities between Anna Freud & Heinz Hartman

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Both focused more on the Ego and saw it as more independent of the Id and Superego

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Jung - the conscious ego develops:

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Around age 4 and encompasses a sense of Self

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Jung - stuff related to you and your life/offers balance

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The Personal Unconscious

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Jung - Collective Unconscious

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Evolutionary past, tendencies between certain behaviours and thoughts, shared knowledge, etc.

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Jung - Meaningful coincidences (not causally linked)

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Synchronicity

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The Persona

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The self you show to others. the “Ideal Self”

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The Shadow

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Dark side of you/your ego, parts you don’t want others to see

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The Anima/Animus

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the masculine (animus) and feminine (anima) side manifesting one over the other; striving for balance

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The Self

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All-Knowing self, repository of knowledge from your ancestors, higher awareness of yourself and your surroundings

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Mother

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Nurturing and fertile, “mother earth”

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Hero & Demon

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Good and evil, our inner conflict

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Complexes (modern day idea of Obsession)

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A group of emotionally charged feelings related to a particular theme

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The 2 Attitudes of the Ego

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Extraversion - energized by contact with others, outwardly focused libidinal energy
Introversion - energy drained around others, libidinal energy focused inward

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4 Functions of the Ego

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Thinking (rational) - problem solver
Feeling (rational) - emotion based
Intuition (irrational) - don’t have to think much about it
Sensation (irrational) - based on sight, hearing, touch, etc.

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Myers-Briggs - 2 dimensions of Ego

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Judging - plan, organized, structured
Perceiving - more spontaneous, impulsive

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What is Individuation?

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Changing the centre of your psychological universe from the Ego to the Integrated self

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Adler - Masculine Protest

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An attempt to be competent and independent, to gain power from abilities, skills, and knowledge

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Adler - Compensation

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A way to overcome the sense of feeling powerless

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Adler - Strive for Superiority

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The drive to become better than we were before, to be competent

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Adler - Perfect Striving

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Meeting fictional goals - imagined future achievements, the ideal of a goal; fictional goal is to strive for the ultimate goal

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Adler - The 3 Social issues to be addressed

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  1. Occupational Tasks
  2. Societal Tasks
  3. Love Tasks
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Adler - Inferiority & Superiority Complexes

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Overwhelmed by the sense of superiority which leads to inferiority

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Birth Order - First Born struggles
Star of the show, lots of parental interactions, likes being in charge, high achievers, follows the status quo
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Birth Order - Second Born struggles
Might get caught up in the power struggle, possibly seek out their own direction, leading the charge
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Birth Order - Last Born struggles
Struggles the most with power, more likely to get an inferiority complex, siblings aren't around as much
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Personality Type: Ruling-Dominant
Person is aggressive, domineering, low in social interest, high in activity, and self-focus
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Personality Type: Getting-Leaning
Person takes from others and is somewhat passive, low in social interest and activity, self-focus, and dependent
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Personality Type: Avoiding
Person runs away from problems, very low social interest and low activity, self-focus
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Personality Type: Socially Useful
Person meets problems realistically, is cooperative and caring, high social interest, high activity, other-focused, striving for superiority
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White - what is a basic ego function?
Bonding with others
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White - 2 Forms of Motivation
1. Effectance Motivation - motivation as a desire to be effective 2. Competence Motivation - the motivation to do better
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White - 2 Aspects of Adaptation
1. Ego Control - how you adapt to the environment 2. Ego Resilience - the degree to which one can modify impulse restraint across situations
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Horney - Aspects of the Self: The Real Self
The inner core of personality, the self you are behind closed doors
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Horney - Aspects of the Self: The Despised Self
Perceptions of interiority and inadequacies
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Horney - Aspects of the Self: The Ideal Self
What one hopes to be; what you strive to be like
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What is Basic Anxiety?
The fear of being alone, helpless, and insecure that stems from negative experiences in childhood.
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Basic Anxiety - Moving Toward
Connecting with others, being passive or compliant, over identification with the despised self, neurotic need to please others
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Basic Anxiety - Moving Against
Using exploitation and aggression to gain control, over identification with the ideal self, wanting to be the best
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Basic Anxiety - Moving Away
Withdrawal and avoiding others and conflict to avoid getting hurt in relationships, wanting to overcome the despised self, fear of never achieving the ideal self
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What is the Development of a Neurotic Trend
Focusing on a single coping strategy that dominates one's personality
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Horney - Males ____ women's ability to ____
envied, produce life
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How did Horney challenge the idea of Penis Envy?
That females didn't envy the penis, but they did envy the power and control men had due to the expectations of women to be submissive
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Mahler - Symbiosis
A psychological bonding
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Mahler - Separation-Individualism
Mothers need to encourage independence in their children
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Mahler - What are the two pressures creating conflict?
1. A wish to be taken care of by the mother and be close to her 2. A fear of being overwhelmed by closeness and a desire to be independent
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Mahler - Symbiotic Psychotic Children
Unable to form an independent sense of self
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Mahler - Separation Anxiety
Experiencing a sense of rejection from the mother
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Mahler - Normal Symbiotic Children
Children who develop Independence and Empathy
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Mahler - Object Integration
Seeing others as Multidimensional
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Mahler - Split Object Image
Thinking of others in polarized ways (either Good or Bad, Friendly or Hurtful)
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Mahler - Basic Fault
A lack of connection between the child and mother that impacts later adult relationships (difficulty trusting others, reading relationships correctly, unable to form connections)
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Kohut - Narcissism
A pattern of self-centred needs that must be satisfied through others
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Kohut - Self-object
Someone who helps you satisfy your needs
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Kohut - Mirroring
Responding to the child's needs
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Securely Attached Children...
When you are in synchrony with your child
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Attachment Theory - Synchrony
Matching behaviour to child's actions and signals
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Ambivalent Insecure Attachment
A child won't want to go out and explore because they feel as though they might not be able to come back
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Avoidance Insecure Attachment
Children can go and explore without expecting to come back home and receive the love of their parents
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Disorganized Attachment
The child fears their parent; comes from abuse
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What are the Internal working models of self, others, and relationships?
We have expectations of what other people are going to be like based on the relationships we formed with our parents.
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What are the alternative categories of attachment?
1. Secure - positive view of self and others 2. Preoccupied - positive view of others, negative of self 3. Dismissing - positive view of self, negative of others 4. Fearful - negative view of both self and others
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Secure Attachments...
People are happier, friendly, trusting, Interdependent, more committed
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Avoidant Attachments...
People are less likely to accept their partners faults, more cynical, jealous, uncomfortable with intimacy, etc.
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Ambivalent Attachments...
People are more likely to be obsessed with their partners and ex-partners, emotional highs and lows, need lots of reassurance, dependent on their partner
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Secure Attachments at Work
View work more positively, less procrastination, less likely to fear failure, happier home-work life balance
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Avoidant Attachments at Work
Tend to want to work a lot and alone, less socializing, work compulsively, feel nervous when not working
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Ambivalent Attachments at work
Prefer to work with others, feel misunderstood and under appreciated, need for the approval of others, fear rejection, personal lives interfere with work lives
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Erikson - Ego Identity is...
A conscious experience of the self that results from interactions with the social reality
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Erikson - Mastery is...
Completing a stage of development in a desire to be competent
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Erikson - Each stage is characterized by _____
A crisis, a period of potential growth but also vulnerable
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Erikson - Ego Strength
Develops when you emerge from the crisis successfully
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Erikson - Infancy Crisis
Trust vs Mistrust - ego strength of Hope
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Erikson - Early Childhood
Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt - ego strength of Will
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Erikson - Preschool
Initiative vs Guilt - ego strength of Purpose
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Erikson - School Age
Industry vs Inferiority - ego strength of Competence
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Erikson - Adolescence
Identity vs Role Confusion - ego strength of Fidelity Foreclosure (a "ready made" identity) and Moratorium (finding out your own identity)
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Erikson - Young Adulthood
Intimacy vs Isolation - ego strength of Love
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Erikson - Adulthood
Generativity vs Stagnation - Ego strength of Care
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Erikson - Old Age
Ego Integrity vs Despair - ego strength of Wisdom
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Modern Ego Theory - Functionalist Apprach
What people want and why they want it

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