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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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1
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Psychoanalytic perspective

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Freud; How personalities are determined by what happens in childhood

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Id

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All basic instincts

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Pleasure Principle

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Demands immediate, unrestrained gratification

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Ego

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Decision maker

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Reality Principle

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Satisfy needs without getting in trouble

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Superego

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Moral conscience

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Personality Development (Freud)

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Psychosexual stages

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Libido

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Free-flowing sexual energy

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Fixation

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Stuck at a stage

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Oral stage

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Birth-18 months; mouth

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Anal stage

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18 months- 3 years; potty training

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Anal retentive

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Over gratified at anal stage; clean, organized

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Anal expulsive

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Under gratified at anal stage; slob, messy

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Phallic stage

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3-6 years; Symbolically focussed on genitals

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Oedipus complex

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Boys want mom, castration anxiety, scared of dad, latch onto dad since dad can have mom

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Electra complex

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Boys have something girls do not, want it, want dad, mom had dad, latches onto dad

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Latent stage

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6-12 years; libido diffused

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Genital stage

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12+; sexual maturity

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Defensive mechanisms

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Ego twists reality to make it less threatening

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Repression

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Things that cause anxiety are pushed into the unconscious

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Regression

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Return to behaviors which reduced anxiety at an earlier age

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Reaction formation

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Unacceptable impulse turned into the opposite

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Projection

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Anxiety causing feelings are projected onto someone else

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Rationalization

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Give explanations that aren’t the real reasons but are more acceptable

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Displacement

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React to something that was not actually what caused the anxiety

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Sublimation

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Take energy caused by anxiety and turn it into something useful or acceptable

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Assessing unconscious

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Use projective tests

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Thematic Apperception Test

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Show picture, they tell a story

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Rorschach test

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Ink blots

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Why repression is false

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Bad memories are remembered really well

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Why Unconscious is false

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We aren’t aware of a lot in out minds but its info processing

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Why Freud was unscientific

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Can’t empirically test it

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Neo-Freudians

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Accept personality structure and huge unconscious, don’t focus on sex and aggression

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Humanistic perspective

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Humans are inherently good, studies average people

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

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Self actualization (accept ourselves, caring)

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Carl Rogers

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Self concept is the core of our personality; growth-promoting climate

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Genuineness

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Can disclose info and make connections

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Acceptance

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Unconditional positive regard

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Empathy

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Really listen and share in feelings

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Self esteem

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Feelings of self worth

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Low self esteem

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Critical and judgmental of others, depression, and anxiety

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Self-serving bias

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We have the tendency to think more positively of ourselves than is warranted

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Evaluating humanism

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Appealing but subjective and unscientific, individualistic

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Trait perspective

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ID certain dimensions and traits of personality

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Big 5

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Emotional stability; extraversion; Openness; Agreeableness; Conscientiousness

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Myers Briggs

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4 dichotomies

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MMPI

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ID clinical disorders; most widely used

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Social-cognitive perspective

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Personalities are shaped by our environment

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Reciprocal determinism

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Personalities shaped by situation, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

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Problems with social-cognitive

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Too much on situation, not enough on traits

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