Murray Flashcards
Principles of Personology
Personality is rooted in the brain
Tension Reduction
Personality develops over time
Personality is not fixed or static
Uniqueness and Universality
Principles of Personology
Personality is rooted in the brain
Tension Reduction
Personality develops over time
Personality is not fixed or static
Uniqueness and Universality
The division of personality
Id
Superego
Ego
• contains the primitive, amoral, and lustful impulses described by Freud, but it also contains desirable impulses, such as empathy and love.
• It provides energy and direction to behavior and is concerned with motivation.
• The problem of controlling or directing the id forces is not the same for all people because some of us have greater id energy with which we must cope.
Id
• Internalization of the culture’s values and norms, by which rules we come to evaluate and judge our behavior and that of others.
• The superego is shaped not only by parents and authority figures, but also by the peer group and culture.
• The superego is not rigidly crystallized by age 5, but continues to develop throughout life
Superego
• Tries to modify or delay the id’s unacceptable impulses.
• Consciously reasons, decides, and wills the direction of behavior
• It functions not only to suppress id pleasure but also to foster pleasure by organizing and directing the expression of acceptable id impulses.
• may integrate the two aspects of personality so what we want to do (id) is in harmony with what society believes we should do (superego)
Ego
Murray’s list of need:
• Abasement
• Achievement
• Affiliation
• Aggression
• Autonomy
• Counteraction
• Defendants
• Deference
• Dominance
• Exhibition
• Harmavoidance
• Infavoidance
• Nurturance
• Order
• Play
• Rejection
• Sentience
• Sex
• Succorance
• Understanding
Types of needs:
Primary (viscerogenic needs)
Secondary (psychogenic needs)
Reactive needs
Proactive needs
survival and related needs arising from internal body processes. E.g., food, water, air, and harmaviodance
Primary (viscerogenic needs)
emotional and psychological needs, such as achievement and affiliation
Secondary (psychogenic needs)
involve a response to something specific in the environment and are aroused only when that object appears.
Reactive needs -
do not depend on the presence of a particular object, and arise spontaneously.
Proactive needs
Characteristics of needs
• Need’s prepotency
• A fusion of needs
• Subsidiation
• Press
• Thema
needs differ in terms of the urgency with which they impel behavior
Need’s prepotency
some needs are complementary and can be satisfied by one behavior or a set of behaviors
A fusion of needs