Chapter 3 - Psychodynamic Theory Flashcards
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Anal Stage
Freud’s concept of a personality type that expresses a fixation at the anal stafe of development and related to the world in terms of the wish for control or power.
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Anxiety
In psychoanalytic theory, a painful emotional experience that signals or alerts the ego to danger.
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Castration
The release and freeing of emotion through talking about one’s problems.
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Conscious
Those thoughts, experiences, and feelings of which we are aware.
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Death Instinct:
Freud’s concept for drives or sources of energy directed toward deth or a return to an inorganic state.
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Defense Mechanisms:
Freud’s concept for those mental strategies used by the person to reduce anxiety. They function to exclude fro mawareness some thought, wish, or feeling.
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Denial
A defense mechanism, emphasized by both Freud and Rogers, in which threaening deelings are not allowed into awareness.
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Ego
Freud’s structural concept for the part of the personality that attempts to satisfy drives [instincts] in accordance with reality and the person’s moral values.
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Energy System
Freud’s view of personality as involving the interplay among various forces or sources of energy.
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Erogenous Zones
According to Freud, those parts of the body that are the sources of tension or excitation.
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Free Association
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s reprtorting to the analyst of every thought that comes to mind.
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Genital Stage
In psychoanalytical theory, the stage of development associated the onset of puberty.
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Id
Freud’s structural concept for the source of the instincts or all the drive energy in people.
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Identification:
The acquisition, as characterisitcs of the self, of personality characteristis perceives to e part of others [ie. parents].
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Isolation
The defense mechanism in which emotion is isolated from the content of a painful impulse or memory.
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Latency Stage
In psychoanalytical theory, the stage following the phallic stage in which there is decrease in sexual urges and interest.
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Libido
The psychoanalytical tern for the energy associated frist with the sexual instricts and later with teh life instincts.
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Life Instinct
Freud’s concept for drives or sources of energy [libido] directed toward the preservation of life an sexual gratification.
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Mechanism
An intellectual movement of the 19th century that argued that basic principles of antural science could explain not only the behavior of physical objects but also human thought and action.
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Oedipus Complex
Freud’s concept expressing a boy’s sexual attraction to the mother and fear of castration by the father, who is seen as a rival.
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Oral Stage
Freud’s concept of a personaslity type that expresses a fixation a the oral stage of development and relates to the world in terms of the wish to be fed or to swallow.
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Penis Envy
In psychoanalytical theory, the female’s envy of the male’s possession of a penis.
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Perception without Awareness
Unconscious perception or perception of a stimulus without conscous awareness of such perception.
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Perceptual Defense
The process of learned behaviors, viewed by Bandura as dependen ton rewards, in contrast with th acquisition of new behaviros, which is seen as independent of reward.
