Chapter 3 Flashcards
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Personality
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A complex cluster of mental, emotional + behavioral characteristics that distinguish a person as an individual.
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Psychodynamic theory
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- originated as a method for treating psychoneurotic disorders
- foundation for general theory of psychology
3
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Freud
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theoretician who explored a vast new realm of the mind + unconscious
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Conscious
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A small fraction of what you can remember right now
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Preconscious
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- grey area
- takes a while to get to
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Unconscious
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- secret / repressed
- can’t get to
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Repression
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process where unacceptable desires, memories + thoughts are excluded from conscious by sending to unconcious
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The Id
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- primitive psychic force hidden in the unconscious
- basic needs and drives that other personality factors are built on
- governed by the pleasure principle
