Chapter 15 First Half Flashcards
A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
Free Association
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Personality
Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
Psychoanalysis
The part of the mind that contains material in which we are unaware but that strongly influences our behavior
Unconscious
Unconscious system of personality consisting of basic sexual and aggressive drives, that supplies psychic energy to personality
Id
Conscious division of personality that attempts to mediate between the demands of the id, the superego and reality
Ego
Division of personality that contains the conscience and develops by incorporating the perceived moral standards of society
Superego
Childhood stages of development during which according to freud the id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
Psychosexual Stages
A boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Oedipus Complex
Children incorporating their parents’ values into their developing stages
Identification
Lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
Fixate
The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Defense Mechanisms
Basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from unconsciousness
Repression
An individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infinite psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
Regression
The ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites people may express feelings that are opposite of their anxiety arousing unconscious feelings
Reaction Formation
People disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing the to others
Projection
Offers self justifying explanations in place of real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions
Rationalization
Shifts sexual or aggressive threatening object of person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
Displacement
Carl Jung’s concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history
Collective Unconscious
Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics
Projective Tests
Projection test which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
TAT
Most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing there interpretations of the blots
Rorschach Inkblot Test
