Chapter 11 - Personality: Theory & Measurement Flashcards
What is the distinct patterns of behavior, thoughts & feelings that characterize a person’s adaptation to life?
Personality
What states that no two persons are ever exactly alike?
Personality
What type of theories propose that personality and behaviour are shaped and influenced by external and internal conflicts?
Psychodynamic theories
What type of theory is Sigmund Freud’s perspective?
Psychoanalytic
What does the psychoanalytic theory emphasize?
Importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as forces that determine behavior
Who is the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology?
Sigmund Freud
Who theorized that the mind is like an iceberg with 3 levels of awareness?
Sigmund Freud
What are Sigmund Freud’s three levels of consciousness?
1) conscious
2) preconscious
3) unconscious
Which level of consciousness is all the thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories which we are aware of at any given time?
Conscious
Which level of awareness are the thoughts, feelings and memories that we aren’t consciously aware of at the moment?
Preconscious
Which level of awareness contains thoughts that can be brought to mind?
Preconscious
Which level of awareness is one’s primary motivating force of behavior?
Unconscious
Which level of awareness contains all of one’s earliest and repressed memories?
Unconscious
What are psychic structures?
Describe the clashing forces of personality
What are Sigmund Freud’s 3 psychic structures of personality?
1) ID
2) superego
3) ego
Which psychic structure contains life instincts and operates on the pleasure principle?
ID
Which psychic structure functions as a moral guardian, setting forth high standards for behaviour?
Superego
Which psychic structure develops during the 1st year of life?
Ego
Which psychic structure resides at conscious, preconscious and conscious?
Ego
Which psychic structure has a role to satisfy the urges of the ID?
Ego
What is the psychoanalytic theory’s idea of identification?
Unconscious adoption of mother person’s behavior
Why did Sigmund Freud identify defense mechanisms in humans?
The ego needs some way to deal with conflict between the ID and the superego or reality?
What are the 8 defense mechanisms identified by Sigmund Freud?
1) repression
2) projection
3) denial
4) rationalization
5) regression
6) reaction
7) displacement
8) sublimation
What is the act of removing unpleasant memories from one’s consciousness so that one is not aware of the painful event?
Repression
What is the act of attributing our own undesirable thoughts, impulses, personality traits or behaviours to others?
Projection
What is the act of refusing to consciously acknowledge the existence of a range of a threatening condition?
Denial
What is the act of supplying a logical, rational, socially acceptable reason for an unacceptable thought or action?
Rationalization
What is the act of reverting to a behaviour that might have reduced anxiety at an earlier stage of development?
Regression
What is the process of denying an unacceptable impulse, usually sexual or aggressive, by giving strong conscious expression to its opposite?
Reaction formation
What is the substitution of a less threatening object for the original object of an impulse?
Displacement
What is the rechanneling of sexual or aggressive energy to pursuits or accomplishments that society considers acceptable or even praiseworthy?
Sublimation
What are the stages of psychosexual development?
1) oral (0-1yrs)
2) anal (2-3yrs)
3) phallic (3-6yrs)
4) latency (6-puberty)
5) genital (puberty)
What is the major instinct that preserves and perpetuates life?
Eros
What is expressed through different pleasure - experiencing erogenous zones of the body?
Libido
What is Eros fuelled by?
Libido
Which complex involving child’s libidinal attachment to the opposite-sex parent is in the boy?
Oedipal
Which complex involving child’s libidinal attachment to the opposite-sex parent is in the girl?
Electra
What does the resolution of the Oedipal and Electra complex result in?
Child identifying with the same-sex parent
Which stage of psychosexual development has no erogenous zones?
Latency
Which stage of psychosexual development happens between zero and one years?
Oral
Which stage of psychosexual development happens between 3 to 6 years old?
Phallic
Which stage of psychosexual development happens between 2 to 3 years old?
Anal
Which stage of psychosexual development happens at puberty?
Genital
Who is the founder of analytical psychology?
Carl Jung
What did Carl Jung develop his theory around the notion of?
Personal unconscious