Chap 13 Flashcards
View personality with a focus on the unconscious and importance of childhood experiences
Psychodynamic theories
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Personality
Frauds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
Psychoanalysis
According to Feud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
Unconscious
Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter her trivial or embarrassing
Free association
Forcibly block things from our conscious
Because they are too unsettling to acknowledge
Repress
Unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
Id
Largely conscious “executive” part of personality that mediates among the demands of the Id, superego and reality
Ego
Represents eternalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations
Superego
The childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on the distinct erogenous zones
Psychosexual stages
A boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Oedipus complex
Lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were not resolved
Fixation
What does the ego protect itself through?
Defense mechanisms
The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Defense mechanisms
Basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety, arousing thoughts, feelings, and motors from consciousness
Repression
