chapter 13 Flashcards
Personality:
an individual’s pattern of thinking, feeling, and behavior.
Disposition:
the way a person behaves across different situations as well as over time.
Personality theory:
a system used to describe and explain the genesis and
development of an individual’s pattern of thinking, feeling, and behavior.
Psychoanalytic theories:
a family of theories originated by Freud that focuses on
unconscious motivation.
Psychoanalysis:
a type of therapy in which unconscious conflicts and motivation
are uncovered, explored, and redirected.
Catharsis:
a release if emotions.
Unconscious:
according to Freud, thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes that
reside outside of awareness.
Conscious mind:
according to Freud, a part of the mind that is aware of current
thoughts and experiences.
Preconscious:
according to Freud, the part of your mind that contains materials just outside of awareness that is easy to pull into awareness.
iD:
according to Freud, the part of the personality that operates on the pleasure
principle, always looking to reduce tension that comes from basic physiological
drives.
Pleasure principle:
according to Freud, the drive to reduce tension.
Eros:
an iD instinct that reduces tension associated with basic biological drives.
Libido:
according to Freud, the energy linked with sexuality.
Thanatos:
according to Freud, ways in which we reduce tensions that are
aggressive and destructive; aka the death instinct
Ego:
according to Freud, the part of the personality responsible for interacting
with conscious reality.
Reality principle:
according to Freud, the main focus of the ego that suggests that the ego will defer pleasure until reasonable way to satisfy iD instincts is available.
Superego:
according to Freud, the part of the personality governed by the
perfection principle.
Perfection principle:
the image of their perfect person, or ego, that inspires the
superego; aka as the ego ideal
Psychosexual stages:
according to Freud, childhood developmental stages in which tension reduction is focused on different areas of the body (oral, anal, phallic, lantency, genital)
Oedipal complex:
according to Freud, a boy’s unconscious desire for his mother
that results in identification with his father.
Fixation:
according to Freud, a habit of obtaining tension reduction from an earlier stage if psychosexual development.
Defense mechanism:
according to The psychoanalytic perspective, a compromise that the ego uses to satisfy and iD instinct indirectly.
Neo-Freudian:
psychoanalytic theories inspired by sigmoid Freud.
Personal unconscious:
according to Jung, the part of one’s personality that stores material currently outside of awareness.