Chapter 14 Flashcards
Personality
peoples typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving
traits
predispositions that influence our behavior’s across many situations
- account for consistencies in our behavior’s
what are the three influences on personality?
genetic - personality is linked to biological parents makeup
shared environmental - experiences within the same family make them more alike
nonshared environmental - experiences make individuals within the same family less alike
Shared environment plays ________role in adult personality
little to no role
Genes directly influence traits T/F
true
who was Freud and what did he believe? what was his theory?
neurologist that developed the first comprehensive theory of personality
psychoanalytical theory
who developed the psychoanalytical theory?
freud
what is the psychoanalytical theory? what are the three primary assumptions?
1 psychic determinism
2 symbolic meaning
3 unconscious motivation
what is psychic determinism?
all psychological events have a cause
we arent free to choose out actions
what is symbolic meaning?
no action is meaningless - everything is a symbol for something
what is unconscious motivation?
rarely understand why we do what we do
Freud though the psyche consisted of three components which are..
ID - primitive instincts - sex and aggression
Ego - decision maker - deal with real world
Superego - sense of morality - ppl with high superego are guilty
what are defense mechanisms?
unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety - tools for coping
what are the 7 defense mechanisms?
repression
denial
projection
displacement
rationalization
intellectualization
sublimation
what is repression
motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories
forget because you want to