Chapter 13 Flashcards
**what is personality?
an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
**The psychodynamic theory focuses on what?
childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality
**The humanistic approach is?
Focus on inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment
**This examines characteristic patterns of behaviors (traits)
Trait theories
in the psychodynamic theory, what is the unconscious?
A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarassing is known as?
Free association
**In the personality structure, name the 3 parts and what each is
id, ego, superego
**What are the 5 stages of Freud’s psychosexual stages?
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Latency
- Genital
**In reviewing defense mechanisms what is projection?
disguising ones threatening impulses by attributing them to others
To view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth is?
Humanistic theories
what is self-actualization
motivation to fulfill one’s full potential
id
- unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
- pleasure principle demanding immediate gratification
- devil
ego
unconscious executive part of personality
reality principle seeks to realistically gratify the id’s impulses
partly conscious perceptions thoughts judgments and memories
superego
focuses on ideal behavior and strives for perfection moral conscious
angel
the person-centered perspective was developed by who?
Carl Rogers
