Midterm Flashcards
A latin word of personality that means masks for actors
Personality
Individual differences in characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
Personality
Reaffirming self values allows for more latitude in dealing with problems and situation
Self-affirmation
Focused on uncovering general principles of personality using correlation and experiment. Conducted in academic setting
Academic psychology
Precursor/proponent of academic psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Research on individuals by the way methods such as case study. Conducted in the Therapeutic or clinical environment
Clinical practice
Making assumptions
Philosophy
Formulating hypothesis
Science
Quality of measuring what a construct is suppose to measure
Validity
Consistency of scores over time
Reliability
Avoidance of subject bias
Objectivity
Measure personality characteristics by means of questionnaires developed with statistics ang theoretical techniques
Psychometric test
Pretention of ambiguous stimulus and expectation of expression of personal attitudes, feelings, etc.
Projective
Helping individual to change, improve and grow for the betterment of the quality of life
Ethical
Wondering troublesome symptoms and substituting more suitable behavior
Curative
Famous for sex and aggression, theory spread beyond Viennese origins. Freud’s command of the language.
Psychoanalysis
He relied more in deductive reasoning than on research. Did not qualify his data
Sigmund Freud
Contains drives, instincts, urges that are beyond our awareness but nonetheless motivate our thoughts, words, feelings and actions. Although one may be aware of overt behaviors, we may not always be aware of the mental processes behind them.
Unconscious
Creates anxiety which stimulates
Suppression
what a person perceives is conscious for only a transitory period; become preconscious when a person shifts to another Idea
Conscious perception
when they slip past the censor; appear in a disguised form
Unconscious
Relatively minor role in Freud’s theory. Mental elements in awareness at any given point
Conscious
tumed toward the outer world and acts as a medium for the perception of external stimuli
Perceptual conscious system
No contact with reality. The PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. Sole purpose is to seek pleasure
Id
Only region of the mind in contact with reality. The DECISION MAKING or the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of personality
Ego
Represents the MORAL AND IDEALISTIC PRINCIPLES (or aspects of personality). No contact with the outside world; unrealistic in its demands for perfection
Superego
Results when the ego acts/intends to act contrary to the moral standards of the superego
Guilt
Happens when ego fails to meet superego’s standards for perfection
Feelings of inferiority
Its aim is SEXUAL PLEASURE, not limited to genital satisfaction
Sex
infants are primarily self-centered, with libido invested almost exclusively on their own ego
Primary narcissism
Happens during adolescence. Occupied with personal appearance and other self-interests; moderate degree of self-love
Secondary narcissism
second manifestation of eros
Love
need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person
Sadism
common need; becomes a perversion when eros becomes subservient to the destructive drive
Masochism
The aim is to return to the organism into an inorganic state
Aggression
Final aim of aggressive drive
SELF-DESTRUCTION
repression of strong hostile impulse and overt and obvious expression of the opposite tendency
Reaction formation
Felt affective, unpleasant state accompanied by physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger
Anxiety
apprehension about an unknown danger. exists in the ego but originates from id impulses
Neurotic anxiety
from the conflict between ego and superego
Moral anxiety
closely related to fear
Realistic anxiety
First introduced by Freud but was further developed by Anna Freud.
Defense mechanism
are established in order to avoid dealing directly with sexual and aggressive Impulses and to define itself from the anxieties that go with it
Defense mechanism
Pushing painful or unacceptable thoughts, memories, or emotions into the unconscious mind. For instance, a person who experienced childhood trauma may have no conscious recollection of the event
Repression
Expressing the opposite of one’s true feelings or desires because the true feelings are too anxiety-provoking. For example, someone who harbors feelings of dislike or jealousy toward another person may go out of their way to express exaggerated friendliness or admiration toward them.
Reaction formation
Redirecting one’s emotions or impulses from the original source toward a less threatening target. For instance, a person who is angry with their boss may come home and yell at their spouse or children.
Displacement
Attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or motives to others. For example, someone who is dishonest may accuse others of being untrustworthy.
Projection
Extreme form of projection
Paranoia
Adopting beliefs or values of others without critical evaluation. Example: A person uncritically adopts their parents’ political views without questioning them.
Introjection
Redirecting unacceptable Impulses Into socially acceptable activities. Example: Channeling aggressive energy into sports or artistic pursuits.
Sublimation
Three phases of stages of development
Oral
Anal
Phallic
0-1 y/o
Pleasure is focused on the mouth, lips, tongue
Oral phase
1-3 y/o
- Central pleasure is anus
- pleasure is centered in bowel and bladder control
Anal phase
characterized by masculine qualities of dominance and sadism
Active orientation
feminine qualities of voyeurism and masochism
Passive orientation
3-6 y/o
- When the genital area becomes the erogenous zone “anatomy is destiny”
- is characterized by the focus on the genital area and the Oedipus or Electra complex.
- Children develop strong attachment and attraction to the opposite-sex parent and may experience jealousy or rivalry with the same-sex parent.
Phallic stage
-Develops a sexual desire for the mother
-In the beginning this inconsistency is still okay to the child but when this becomes recognized he GIVES UP IDENTIFICATION WITH FATHER BUT RETAINS FEELINGS/DESIRE FOR MOTHER
Male Oedipus complex
Time when affection and hostility exist because one or both feelings may be unconscious
Complete Oedipus complex
When boy realize the absence of a penis in a girl, it causes shock and lends him to conclude that girls had their penis cut off.
Castration complex
Girls soon discover that boys are born with an extra attachment (read: penis)
Female Oedipus complex
Often expressed as a wish to become a man Carried over into the wish of having a baby especially a boy
Penis envy
Dormant psychosexual development
Latency period
Puberty signal the re-awakening of the sexual aim
Genital period
- Stage attained by everyone who reaches physical maturity
- Consicousness would play a more important role for a mature person
Maturity
- Stage after an individual goes through the other stages
- Difficult to achieve since most individuals may develop psychosexual problems (
Psychological maturity
- Patients are required to VERBALIZE every though that comes to mind no matter how irrelevant/repugnant it may seem.
- It aims to arrive at the unconscious by starting with a conscious thought and following the train of associations wherever it leads
Free association
- Vital to psychoanalysis
- Strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop to their analyst during the course of their treatment
Transference
allows patients to relive childhood experiences within the non-threatening climate during therapy
POSITIVE TRANSFERENCE
- Usually in the form of hostility
- Must be recognized by therapist and explained to patients so that they can OVERCOME RESISTANCE to treatment
Negative transference
- surface meaning or conscious description
- part of your dreams that you can remember
Manifest
Transforming the dream from its MANIFEST to LATENT content
Dream Analysis
- the dream’s unconscious material
- part of your dream where you can decode.
Latent
manifest content is not as extensive as the latent content
Condensation
the dream image is replaced by some other idea remotely related to it
Displacement
discovering the unconscous element underlying the manifest content
Dream symbols
- Unconscious slips which are so common that we usually pay little attention to them and deny that they have underlying significance
- they reveal unconscious intention of the person
Freudian slips
Presents and optimistic view of the person / people while resting on the notion of SOCIAL INTEREST
Individual psychology
Feeling of oneness with all humankind
Social interest
these feelings motivate a person to strive for success/superiority
FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
- Adler believed that this is the dynamic force behind all motivation
AGGRESSION
- WILL TO POWER OR A DOMINATION OF OTHERS
- was abandoned by adler as universal drive
MASCULINE PROTEST