Chapter 15- 1st half

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Sigmund Freud

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Focused on the role of our unconscious and childhood experiences in deterring our personality

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Personality

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A persons characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

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Free association

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Psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how embarrassing or trivial

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Psychoanalysis

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Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motivates and conflicts

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Unconscious

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Part of the mind that contains material of which we are unaware but that strongly influences our behavior

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Id

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Unconscious system that drives you to do things in the heat of the moment without thinking of consequences or moral

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Ego

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Conscious division of personality that attempts to mediate between the id and superego

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Superego

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Division of personality that is focused on the morals and standards of society

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Psychosexual stages

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Childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the ids pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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Oedipus complex

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Freud, a boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

Phallic stage

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Identification

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Freud, a process by which children incorporate their parents values to their developing superegos

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Fixate

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Being stuck in a psychosexual stage and unable to move to the next stage, until the fixated one is resolved

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Defense mechanisms

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Psychoanalytic theory, Freud, ego unconsciously protects itself against unpleasant impulses or circumstances

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Repression

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Psychoanalytic theory, defense mechanism that banishes anxious-arousing thoughts, feelings and memories from consciousness

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Regression

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which a person faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

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Rationalization

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Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in the place of the real, more treating, unconscious reasons for ones actions

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Denial

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Refusal to accept the reality of something that makes you anxious

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Projection

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Defense mechanism when people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
“Hypocrite”

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Reaction formation

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Defense mechanism which causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses to their opposites

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Displacement

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive implies toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet

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Alfred Adler

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Inferiority complex-a pattern of avoiding Feelings of inadequacy rather than trying to over come them

If people get things handed to them and don’t do things for themselves it has negative impact

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Karen horney

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Penis envy, thought that the social tensions and the people who surround us everyday allows for us to develop a personality

Childhood anxiety triggers our desire for love

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Carl Jung

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Focused on the universal principles common to all

Collective unconscious-part of the mind that contains inherited instincts, urges, and memories common to all people

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Collective unconscious

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part of the mind that contains inherited instincts, urges, and memories common to all people

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Projective tests

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Unstructured test in which a person is asked to respond freely

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TAT (thematic apperception test)

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Projective test, People express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about the pictures

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Rorschach inkblot test

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Most widely used projective test.

Set of 10 inkblots; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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Objective personality test

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A forced choice test , a person must select an answer, designed to study personality characteristics