General Terms Flashcards
Drive Model
term: individual behavior is determined by the tension between instinctual forces and pressures of civilization
Drive Model
term: view that innate biological factors shape the personality more so than relationships
Drives
term: the motivational energy for the psychic system
Sexual & Aggressive
What drives are considered primary within the drive model?
Object Relations
Theory focused on early development in which relationships are considered the primary motivators, rather than instinctual drives
Relational Model
Model in which the individual exists in transactional patterns, or a matrix
Relational Model
Model in which internal structures are derived from an interactive, interpersonal field
Relational Model
Model that looks at subject, object relationship and the transactions between the two
Self
term: an active organizing entity moving through time
Self
term: a representation that is present within the ego
Object
term: refers to the inner residues of past relations that shape a subject’s current interactions with others
Representation
term: how a subject (person) psychological represents an object
Representation
term: mental images of the external world