Extra 10 Flashcards
Erogenous zones
Distinct pleasure sensitive areas
What stage do boys developed desires for mom and girls desires for father
Phallic stage for boys
Electra complex for girls
Psychosexual stages
Oral(1 1/2)- pleasure centers in mouth
Anal(-3)-bowls and bladder elimination
Phallic(-6)- genital pleasure
Latency(-puberty)- dormant sexual feelings
Genital(after puberty) - maturation of sexual interests
Gender identity
Sense of being male or female
According to Freud human personality arises from
A conflict between our impulse and restraint
Now freudians
Freud followers who followed his main ideas of personality structure, unconscious; personality shape in childhood, defense mechanisms
How did neo freudians feet away from Freud
Placed more emphasis on the conscious mind role in interpreting experience and in coping with the environment
Second they doubted that sex and aggression were all consuming motivations
What are faults found with Freuds theory
It offers only after the fact explanations and repression rarely occurs
Doesn’t support freuds unconscious
But projection and reaction formation n are in false consensus
What did Freud draw psych attention to
Unconscious
Struggle cope with anxiety and sexuality
Conflict between biological impulses and social restraints
False consensus effect
The tendency to overestimate mate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
Who offered a third force perspective
Abraham Maslow and carl rogers
What did Maslow propose
Motivated by hierarchy of needs
Seek self actualization
Self transcendence
He studied healthy creative people
What did carl rogers do
People basically good
Growth promoting climate required three conditions: genuine, acceptance, empathy
How did humanistic psychologists assess a persons sense of self
Questionnaires that evaluate self concept
Ideally and actually
Critics of humanistic perspective
Vague subjective
The individualism can lead to self indulgence, selfishness; and an erosion of moral restraints
Naive- doesn’t appreciate human capacity for evil
Gordon allport
Described personality in terms of fundamental traits
Myers Briggs type indicator
Sort people according to carl jungs personality types based on responses to 126 questions
Not research instrument
Factor analysis
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of correlated test items that tap basic components of intelligence
Hans and Sybil Eysenck
Reduce individual variations into two or three dimensions
Extra version introversion
Emotional stability instability
Dopamine neural activity is higher in extroverts or introverts
Extroverts
Jerome Lagan attributed differences in children’s shyness and inhibition to their
Autonomic nervous system reactivity
Reactive autonomic greater anxiety and inhibition
T or f
Personality inventories are scored objectively
True ,unlike projective tests, but doesn’t guarantee validity