Chapter 5 Flashcards
Personality
The stable and distinct ways in which individuals think, feel and behave in social interactions
Psychodynamic Perspective
Personality is the product of a dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious mental structures
Early developmental conflicts
Trait Perspective
Personality is the combination of various stable dispositional qualities that a person exhibits
Sigmund Freud
Conscious - You can answer right away (your birthday)
Preconscious - Something you can easily access
Unconscious - Much of who we are is contained here (dreams, when your thought slip out under pressure)
EROS - Drive for affection
Thanatos - Death, he belives we had a death drive, fantasised about it but afraid of it
Id
Basic unconscious human drive (going to the washroom, eating)
Pleasure Principle
Ego
Reality Principle
when you become aware of all the rules on behaviour
Knowing your consequences
Superego
Internalization of a moral code
Socialization
Internalized standards of right and wrong
Psychosocial sexual Stages of Development
A series of age-dependent stages requiring the resolution of particular conflicts or tasks
Oral Stage
Birth to 1 year
Erogenous Zone - Mouth
Fixation
Failure to resolve a conflict at a particular stage of development
Fixation at the oral stage
Anxiety and defence mechanisms
The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Displacement
When you direct your anger off the original object and onto someone else
Projection
Thinking your own thoughts and feelings are the same as someone else (you hate someone, so they do to)
Reaction Formulation
Guarding your emotions
Repression
Pushing bad thoughts into the unconscious
Someone who experienced child abuse doesn’t remember the events
Sublimation
Getting your anger out with something else like sports
Attachment Theory
The idea that early relationships and bonds formed with caretakers in infancy significantly influence our capacity to form meaningful relationships with others as adults
The strange situation
An experimental research procedure in which researchers observe children’s responses to separation form, and reunion with, their primary caretakers
Internal Working Models
Mental templates of expectations about other people’s trustworthiness and potential helpfulness
Secure
Positive view of others and yourself
Preoccupied
Someone who likes other people, but dont think they are capable of being liked
Dismissing
Like themselves, but dont like others, dont have trust
Fearful
Someone who has a poor self-image but they also think they world is a scary place
General Crime
Insecure patterns of attachment
Predatory Crime
Potential development to psychopathy
Mixed results
