Chapter 16 Flashcards
Psychodynamic perspective
is deterministic in that it holds the ultimate cause of motivation and behaviour derives from biologically endowed and socially acquired impulses that determine ones desire, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours regardless of whether we like it or not
Psychodynamics
refers more broadily to the study of dynamic unconscious mental processes outside of the freudian tradition
Unconscious motivation
can be studies inside or outside the freudian understanding of the unconscious
adaptive unconscious
runs on automatic pilot as it carries out countless computations and innumerbale adjustments as it is the conscious mind that every once in a while jumps into action to make intnetional corrective adjustments
Implicit motives
refers to all those motives, emotions, attitudes and judgements that operate outside of a persons conscious awareness and that are fundamentally distinct from self-report. motives, emotions, attitudes and judgements.
Priming
the procedure that evokes an implicit response from and individual upon exposure to a stimulus that is outside their conscious awareness.
Terror management theory
is the mainspring of human activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some ways that it is the final destiny for man
ego psychology
freud postulated that all psychical energy originiated in the id. The ego developed through the following trajectory: symbolic, impulsive, self-protective, conformist, consctentious and autonomous
object relation theory
is the study of the unconscious motivation being with a rather single-minded focus on sexual and agressive drives. It focuses on the nature and the developments of mental representations of the self and others and on the affective processes associated with those representations. in particular focuses on how childhoood mental representations of ones caretaker are captured within personality and carried into adulthood
