Final Flashcards
Describe the Iceberg of selfhood.
Conscious: wisible and know part of us
Preconscious: Lies just below the surface of self awareness
Unconscious: Unknown to ourselves and others
Fill in the blank
Freud said the socially accepted mask we wear are called the ________
Ego
What are the 4 windows in Johari Windows?
- Social Self: high-selfawarenesss, conscious
- Hidden self: Self-awareness, Pre conscious, doesn’t align with the cultural standards, aware of but embarssed of,
- Blind Self: Potenial self awareness, tends to be a little threatening to social self,
- Unconscious self: No self awareness but massive part of selfhood, rejected and repressed part of our ugly selves.
What is a horizon?
The extent of someone’s perspective or knowledge in a specific professional area
Define presentism.
Judging historical works based on modern beliefs and values
What is Freuds 1st model Topographical model?
Layer 1: Conscious
Layer 2: Preconscious Repression done by the sensors
Layer 3: Unconscious: Trying to break through the repression barrier
What is Freuds 2nd model Topographical model?
- Layer 1: SuperEgo and Ego,
- Layer 2: ID (Threatening thoughts) and ego defences
Desribe the ID.
- Primitive part of psyche, Driven by instinctual needs and urges (Hunger, thirst, aggression). Operates on the pleasure principle.Unconscious,
What is the Ego?
Rational Function: Mediates between demand of ID and the real world with Defense mechanisms: Protects from self threats.
What is a defence mechanism?
A psychological strategy or behavior that people use to protect themselves from anxiety or distress.
What is an agressor?
Defence mechanism**
When a person imitates someone who threatens them
What is projection?
Defence mechanism**
Pushing their own forbidden/unacceptable wishes and desire on to others
What is Reaction formation?
Defence mechanism**
Frightening wish into its safer opposite within the person
A young boy who bullies a girl he’s attracted to
What is displacement?
Defence mechanism**
Involves the powerful other(attacks but does not get attacked back), injured self(CANNOT lash back) and easy scapegoat (The target of the hatred)
Describe the superego.
- Forms at around 3,
- process of socialization,
- internalizing laws, values, prohibitions,
- It represents the aggressive wishes we feel
- Superego establishes the prohibition of incest
What are the five Freud’s Psychosexual stages?
- Oral: pleasure centers on the mouth
- Anal: Focus on bowel and bladder elimination, coping with control
- Phallic: Pleasure zone in the genitals
- Latency: Phase of dormant sexual feelings
- Genital: Maturation of sexual interests
What is the big 5 that are correlated to almost all adjectives to some degree?
Hint CANOE
- C: Conscientiousness: Self-discipline, careful pursuit of delayed goals
- A: Agreeable: helpful,trusting
- N: Neurocritic: Anxiety, insecurity
- O:Openness to experience: Nonconformity, variety
- E: Extraversion: Drawing energy from others, sociability
What is Popularity fallacy?
When an argument relies on public opinion to determine what is true, right, or good
What is a Non-sequitur?
A statement that doesn’t logically follow from the premises that came before it
Describe an analogical aruguement.
A is like B, attempts to convince someone to understand A in relation to its similarities to B
How do we know if an analogical arguement is viable?
If the two things share many essential similarities
What is reflexivity?
Bias
The act of acknowledging openly how a persons biases might have shaped ones interpretation.
What is ignorance bias?
A cognitive bias that occurs when someone overestimates their knowledge or abilities in an area where they are not particularly knowledgeable.
Fill in the blank
Naive presentism is when we mistakenly assume that the authors of the past had the same understainding for things as we _____________________.
Do now
True or false
All approaches to personality have the same level of accuracy and are all the same validity level.
False
Is personality a big or small portion of our selfhood?
Small portion
What part of the selfhood iceberg would personality be?
The tip
The conscious layer
What is personality?
Socially accepted mask we wear daily to present to others.
Fill in the blank
Social media is a ____________ ___ _ _________.
Mask on a mask
What is the pleasure principle?
People are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain to satisfy their need.
What is signal anxiety?
Small amount of anxiety that prompts the ego to defend itself aginst threats to its integirty and self-esteem
What does signal anxiety do for the ego?
Prevents it from getting overwhlemed by other forms of anxiety
What is a healthy displacment?
A healthy way to show your emotion
What are the two functions of the ego?
1) Conscious portion: emotional regulation
2) Unconscious portion: Protecting the ego against threats
What are the two functions of the super ego?
- Prosocial function: Internalzied social rules,norms, values learned from parents and society to allow for civilzation to exist
2.Inner Tyrant/Critic Function: Agressive wishes we feel towards others but it is directed at ourselves
What is our internal voice/moral compass called?
Super ego
What is the social cognitive perspective on personalityu and situation?
- Unfamiliar situations: Personality remains hidden and sitation has more power than the traits
- Informal sitautions: Traits are more powerful than the situation.
Are selfhood and personality the same concepts?
No but they are related.
True or False
For something to be considered a psychological disrder all three things need to present.
Distress, Dysfunctionality ad risk of harm.
False
What is a common thing people hear in an analogical arguement?
Instead of a is like b they hear A IS B.
What is the biological reductionism fallacy?
Only biological factors matter in psychological suffering
What has historically been over looked by psychirtst and psycholgist in regards to psycholoigcal suffering?
Non-biological factors
What five things play a huge role in mental health?
- Family
- Social
- Economic
- Political
- Environmental
What three things make up the biopsychosocial approach that are connected to psychological disorders?
- Biological influences
- Psychological influences
- Socio-Cultural influences
True or false
A psychological disorder could remain unexpressed until triggered by an external factor.
TRUE
What is the Diathesis-Stress model?
development of a psychological disorder combination of genetic and environment factors.
Internal factor + External factor = Psychological disorder
What did Erich Fromm believe?
Humans need autonmy and security to be fulfilled.
What are key aspects of secuirty?
- To and feel loved
- Protection, care and respect from loved ones and community
- Sense of belonging without changing yourself
- Mature independence and meaningful relationships
What are key aspects for autonomy?
- Seperate without losing security
- Grow and transformCreate
- Self-Resilience
- Becoming yourself not who others want you to be
What are the 3 self-harm behaviours we studied?
- Suicide
- Non-fatal suicide attempt
- Non-suicidal self injury
Define suicide.
Intentional self inflicted death
What is a non-fatal suicide attempt?
Potential harmful behaviour with some intention of dying. higher insidence than deaths by suicide
What is a non-suicidal self injury?
NSSI
Deliberate destruction of body tissue with no to intent to die
What is dissociation?
*Mental process where a person may disconnect from their body, thoughts, feelings, memories and sense of idenity
What may dissociation be a response to?
Trauma or stress
What are three examples of disassociation?
- Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
- Dissociative Amnesia
- Depresonization or derealization disorder
Describe Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Presence of 2 or more distict personality states, leading to disrupted sense of self.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
Inability to remeber important information. Usually linked to traumatic or stressful events