Final Exam Flashcards
Clinical psychology
Branch of psych; assessment and treatment if mental illness, abnormal behavior and psychiatric problems
Personality
Person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
4 personality framework questions
- What is the nature of humans?
- What motivates our behavior?
- What factors are important for development of personality?
- Can we change, how?
Psychodynamic approach (Freud)
Conflicting forces; unconscious influences
Hysteria
Physical symptoms without physical cause
Seduction theory
Mental problems due to actual sexual abuse
Three aspects of mind
- Conscious
- Preconscious
- Unconscious
Conscious mind
Current awareness
Preconscious mind
Things we can become aware of
Unconscious mind
Blocked from awareness
Repression
Blocking of Id impulses, motivated forgetting
Denial
Saying you aren’t in a current state
Rationalization
Logical reason to not feel a certain way
Displacement
“Kicking the dog” taking it out on something else
Projection
The other person is feeling something, not you
Reaction formation
Present themselves as the opposite of they feel
Sublimination
Displacement to socially acceptable activity
Freud’s developmental theory
Goal: experience optimal gratification at each stage without fixation
Freud’s stages in order
- Oral stage
- Anal stage
- Phallic stage
- Latency period
- Genital stage
Oral stage
Birth to 18 months; weaning=overly dependent or hostile/outspoken
E-zone: mouth
Anal stage
18 months to 3 years; toilet training=generous/messy or stingy/neat E-zone: anus
Phallic stage
3 to 5 years, Resolving sexual identity issues Oedipal crisis: prove manhood or Electra complex: inferior/seductive
E-zone: penis/lack of one
Latency period
5 to puberty, repressed libido and displacement to other activities
Genital stage
Remainder of life, sexual urges towards others, drive towards love and generation