Module 1 Flashcards
What are the factors of personality?
Instinctual drives
Unconscious processes
Early childhood influences
Which years of life are very crucial in mental health development?
First five years
What is the criteria of a useful theory?
Generates research Is falsifiable Organises data Guides action Is internally consistent Is parsimonious
What are the basic elements of a personality?
Id
Ego
Superego
What does a balanced and healthy personality have?
A balanced and healthy personality would have a balance of id, ego and super ego
What is id?
It is president since birth
It demands immediate fulfilment of needs and wants
What is ego?
Deals with reality.
It insures the impulse of it are expressed in an acceptable manner
What is superego?
Moral part of personality
Sense of right and wrong
Holds all the moral standards and ideals acquired from surrounding
Defence mechanism
Deals with conflict
Unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety
Matters in which we behave or think to protect ourselves
Which defence mechanism is less effective in the long term
More primitive defences mechanisms
List types of defense mechanisms
Denial Regression Acting out Dissociation Compartmentalisation Projection Reaction formation Repression Displacement Intellectualisation Rationalization Undoing Sublimation Compensation Assertiveness
Psychosexual stages of development
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
Oral stage years
0-1
Anal stage years
1-3
Phallic stage years
3-6
