Part 1 Flashcards
Sigmund Freud
Father of the psychoanalysis psychology.
Personality
An individual’s characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Free Association
A method of exploring the unconscious in which a person reveals and says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing.
Psychoanalysis
Theory of personality and therapeutic to technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and actions.
Unconscious
A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and emotions.
ID
Unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operating on the pleasure principal demanding immediate gratification.
Ego
Functions as the executive and mediates the demands.
Superego
The part of personality that represents internalized ideas and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations.
Psychosexual stages
The childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.
Stages
1.)Oral 2.)Anal 3.)Philliac 4.)Lateny 5.)Genital
Oedipus Complex
A boys sexual desire for his mother, feelings of jealousy and hatred to the rival father. (Electra Complex - girls)
Identification
Their superego gains strength that incorporates their parents values.
Fixate
A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unsolved.
Defense Mechanisms
The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Repression
The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety, arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.