Chapter 7 Flashcards
The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave
PERSONALITY
Value judgments made about a person’s moral and ethical behavior
CHARACTER
The enduring characteristics with which each person is born
TEMPERAMENT
Four Perspectives in Study of Personality
- PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE
- BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE
- HUMAINISTIC PERSPECTIVE
- TRAIT PERSPECTIVE
The founder of the psychoanalytic movement in psychology
SIGMUND FREUD
Where and when men were supposedly unable to control their “animal” desires; a good Victorian husband would father several children with his wife and then turn to a mistress for sexual comfort, leaving his virtuous wife untouched
Europe during the Victorian Age
Divisions of Consciousness
- CONSCIOUS MIND
- PRECONSCIOUS MIND
- UNCONSCIOUS MIND
Level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious
PRECONSCIOUS MIND
Level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions
CONSCIOUS MIND
Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness are kept
UNCONSCIOUS MIND
How does unconscious mind can be revealed
Dreams and Freudian slips of the tongue
Freud’s Theory: Parts of Personality
- ID
- EGO
- SUPEREGO
Part of the personality present at birth; completely unconscious
ID
The instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society’s standards for behavior
LIBIDO
Principle by which the id functions; the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality; mostly conscious, rational, and logical
EGO
Principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result
REALITY PRINCIPLE
Part of the personality that acts as a moral center
SUPEREGO
Part of the superego that contains the standards for moral behavior
EGO IDEAL
Art of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how well behavior matches or does not match the ego ideal
CONSCIENCE
Unconscious distortions of a person’s perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISM
The person refuses to acknowledge or recognize a threatening situation
DENIAL
The person refuses to consciously remember a threatening or unacceptable event, instead pushing those events into the unconscious mind
REPRESSION
The person invents acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior
RATIONALIZATION
Unacceptable or threatening impulses or feelings are seen as originating with someone else, usually the target of the impulses or feeling
PROJECTION
The person forms an emotional or behavioral reaction opposite to the way he or she really feels in order to keep those true feelings hidden from self and others
REACTION FORMATION
Redirecting feelings from a threatening target to a less threatening one
DISPLACEMENT
The person falls back on childlike patterns of responding in reaction to stressful situations
REGRESSION
The person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety
IDENTIFICATION
The person makes up for deficiencies in one area by becoming superior in another area
COMPENSATION (SUBSTITUTION)
Channeling socially unacceptable impulses and urges into socially acceptable behavior
SUBLIMATION
If the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, it will result in personality traits and behaviors associated with that earlier stage
FIXATION
Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES
First stage, occurring in the first year of life, in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict; id dominated
ORAL STAGE
Second stage, occurring between about one and three years of age; the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is the source of conflict; ego develops
ANAL STAGE
A person fixated in the anal stage who is messy, destructive, and hostile
ANAL EXPULSIVE PERSONALITY
A person fixated in the anal stage who is neat, fussy, stingy, and stubborn
ANAL RETENTIVE PERSONALITY
Third stage, occurring from about three to six years of age; the child discovers sexual feelings; superego develops
PHALLIC STAGE
Situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent
OEDIPUS COMPLEX
A similar process for girls
ELECTRA COMPLEX