Part 1 Flashcards

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Sigmund Freud

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Father of the psychoanalysis psychology.

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Personality

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An individual’s characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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Free Association

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A method of exploring the unconscious in which a person reveals and says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing.

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Psychoanalysis

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Theory of personality and therapeutic to technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and actions.

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Unconscious

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A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and emotions.

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ID

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Unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operating on the pleasure principal demanding immediate gratification.

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Ego

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Functions as the executive and mediates the demands.

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Superego

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The part of personality that represents internalized ideas and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations.

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Psychosexual stages

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The childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

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Stages

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1.)Oral 2.)Anal 3.)Philliac 4.)Lateny 5.)Genital

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Oedipus Complex

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A boys sexual desire for his mother, feelings of jealousy and hatred to the rival father. (Electra Complex - girls)

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Identification

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Their superego gains strength that incorporates their parents values.

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Fixate

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A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unsolved.

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Defense Mechanisms

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The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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Repression

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The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety, arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

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Regression

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In which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some physic energy remained fixated.

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Reaction Formation

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When the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.

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Projectile

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When people disguise their own threatening impulses attributing them to others.

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Rationalization

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Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in the place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions.

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Displacement

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Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.

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Collective Unconscious

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Cael Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history.

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Projective Tests

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A personality test that provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigge projection if ones inner dynamics.

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TAT

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A test which people express their inner feeling through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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Most widely used projective test which seems to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of 10 inkblots.