ERIKSON Flashcards
Who coined the term identity crisis?
Erik Erikson
Erikson’s personality theory vs Freud
Extends freud’s theory in terms of infantile developmental
He added
School Age
Youth
Adulthood
Old age
To which each stage, has a specific psychosocial struggle that contributed to the formatiob of personality
Struggle that adolescence onward experience
identity crisis
A turning point in one’s life that may either strengthen or weaken personality
not a catastrophic event but oppurtunity for adaptive or maladaptive adjustments
Identity crisis
Erikson’s emphasis on his theory
Social and historical
What is ego accdg so erikson
a positive force that creates a self-identity and a sense of “I”
helps us adapt to the various conflicts and crises of life and keeps us from losing our individuality to the leveling forces of the society.
Unifies our personality and guards against indivisibility
It is partially unconscious organizing energy that synthesizes our present experience with past self indentities and anticipated images of self
Emerges from and is largely shaped by the society
Exists potentialy at birth but emerges fron within a cultural environment
During CHILDHOOD the ego is
weak, pliable and fragile
During ADOLESCENCE the ego is
Beginning to take form and gain strength
3 interrelated aspects of the ego
Body ego
Ego ideal
Ego identity
It refers to experiences with our body; a way of seeing our physical self as different from other people.
Body ego
Represents our image we have for ourselves in comparison with an established ideal. It is responsible for our being satisfied and dissatisfied not only within our physical self but with entire personal identity
Ego ideal
The image we have of ourselves in the variety of social roles we play.
Shaped by multiplicity of conflicts and events - past present or future
Ego identity
Ordinarily the tine when the three interrelated aspects of ego are CHANGING MOST RAPIDLY
However changes can also take place at any stage of life
Adolescence
Illusion perpetrated and perpetuated by a particular society that it is somehow chosen to be the human species
Also aided the survival of the tribe
Pseudospecies
what is epigenetic principle
ego develops throughout the various stages of life
Basic points of psychosocial development
- Growth takes from epigenetic principle
- Interaction between opposites or the conflict between syntonic and dystonic.
- Conflict between syntonic and dystonic produces an ego quality/ego strength. Referred to as BASIC STRENGTH that allows us to move into next stage
- Too little basic strength at any one stage results in CORE PATHOLOGY
- He never lost sight of the biological aspects pf devt
- Events in early stage does not cause personality devt
- During each stage especially from adolescence forward personality devt is characterized by identity crisis
Name erikson’s stage pf psychosocial devt and its components
See book
2 modes of incorporating of oral sensory mode
Receiving and accepting
Identity emerges from 2 sources
name ot
1 adolescents’ affirmation or repudiation of childhood identification
2 historical and social context which encourage conformity to certain standards
Syndrome of problem that includes a divided self image, inability to establish intimacy, a sense of time urgency, a lack of concentration on required task, and a rejection of family to community standards
Indentity confusion
Proper ratio of identity to identity confusion will result in
Faith in some sort of ideological principle
Ability to freely decide how we should behave
Trust in our peers and family who give us advice regarding goals and aspirations
Confidence in our choice of an eventual occupation
Blocks one’s ability to synthesize various self images and values into a workable identity
Role repudiation
Role repudiation can take in the form of
Diffidence - extreme lack of self trust
Defiance - stubbornly hold to sociall unacepptable beliefs and practices
What is Psychology of the Individual of Allport
morphogenic approach
6 criteria of mature personality accdg to Allport
1 extension of the sense of self 2 warm relating of self to others 3 emotional security or self acceptance 4 realistic perception of the environment 5 insight and humor 6 unifying philosophy of life
Level of personal disposition
Cardinal disposition
Central disposition
Secondary disposition
an eminent characteristic or ruling passion so outstanding that it dominates the person’s lives
most people do not have these
Historic or fictional characters
Prominent to a person
Cardinal disposition
describes as those that would be listed in an accurate letter of recommendation written by someone who knew the person quite well.
5-10
Friends and close friends know about you
Mark the person as unique
Person’s adaptive and stylistic behavior
Central disposition
Not central to the personality yet occur with some regularity and are responsible for much of one’s specific behaviro
Secondary disposition
strongly felt dispositions. Receive their motivation from basic needs and drives
initiates action
Motivational disposition
Less intensely experienced
Guides action
Stylistic disposition
Those behavipr and characteristics that people regard as warm central and impt into their lives
Self indentity/self enhancement
Person’s values as well as that part of the conscience that is personal and consistent with one’s adult beliefs
Proprium
These are not proprium behaviors
1 basic drives and needs
2 custom traditions
3 Habitual behavior
Must be considered in theory of motivation
Peripheral motives
Propriate motives
Motives that reduces a need
Peripheral motive
Motives that seek to maintain tension and disequilibrium
Propriate striving
allport’s explanation for the myriad human motives that seemingly are not accounted for by hedonistic or drive reduction principles.
Represents a theory of changing rather than unchanging motives. Capstone of allport’s idea on motivation
Notion that human behavior is based on present interest.
Attempt to explain conscious self sustaining comtemporary motivations
Functional autonomy
Levels of functional autonomy
Perseverative functional autonomy
Propriate functional autonomy
Tendency of an impression to leave an influence on subsequent experience
Perseverative functional autonomy
Master system of motivation that confers unity on personality
Propriate functional autonomy
Processes that are not functionally autonomous
Biological drives
Motives directly linked to the reduction of basic drives
Reflex actions
Physique intelligence temperament
Habits
Patterns of behavior that require primary reinforcement
Sublimations tied to childhood sexual desires
Neurotic/pathological symptoms
