Chapter 14 - Personality Flashcards
What is personality…
people’s way of thinking, feeling, and behaving
What is psychic determinism…
the assumption that all psychological events have a cause
What is the psychoanalytic theory…
psychic determination, symbolic meaning, unconscious motivation
What is the id…
pleasure principle, all drives and urges, immediacy (Infancy)
What is the ego…
reality principle, confines id to reality, reational/logical, develops around age 2
What is the superego…
internalized morality and values, responsibility, not bound by reality, develops age 5
What is repression…
motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories or impulses
What is repression…
motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories or impulses
What is regression…
returning to a safer and simpler time
What is sublimation…
transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired and socially valued goal
Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development
Oral (Birth-18 months), Anal (18 months-3 years), Phallic (3-6 years), Latency, (6-12 years), Genital (12+ years)
Oedipus Complex
boys fall in love with their mothers and want to kill their fathers
Electra Complex
girls fall in love with their fathers and want to kill their moms
What is the inferiority complex…
feelings of low self-esteem that can lead to overcompensation for such feelings
What is reciprocal determination…
people mutually influence each others behaviours
