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.
Regression
In which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some physic energy remained fixated.
Reaction Formation
When the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
Projectile
When people disguise their own threatening impulses attributing them to others.
Rationalization
Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in the place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions.
Displacement
Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.
Collective Unconscious
Cael Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history.
Projective Tests
A personality test that provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigge projection if ones inner dynamics.
TAT
A test which people express their inner feeling through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Most widely used projective test which seems to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of 10 inkblots.
