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Id

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  • unconscious
  • pleasure principle
  • Irrational and immediate
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Superego

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– partly conscious

  • Morality principle
  • values and acceptable behavior
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Ego

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– partly conscious

– Reality principle

-Organized, rational and the mediator

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Freudian slips

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Mistakes from unconscious mind

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Free association

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Patient reports all thoughts, feelings and mental images that come to mind

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Dream interpretation

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Manifest and latent content

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Oral stage

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  • Birth-1 1/2
  • pleasure through eating, biting, putting everything in mouth
  • primary conflict= becoming less dependent
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Anal Stage

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  • 1 1/2-3
  • pleasure through control of elimination. Sense of control
  • primary conflict= potty training
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Phallic Stage

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  • 3-5
  • discover genitals
  • attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and becomes jealous of same sex parent
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Latency Stage

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  • 5-puberty
  • no sexual energy
  • learns gender identity
  • fixation can’t occur at this stage
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Genital Stage

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  • puberty +
  • capable of reproduction
  • mature, responsible urges and pursuit of relationship
  • no fixation
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Repression

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excluding anxiety producing thoughts, feelings and impulses from consciousness

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Regression

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Behaving in a way that’s characteristics of earlier development (childlike)

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Reaction Formation

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when ego is stressed over whether it’s making right decision about behavior instead of dealing w/ anxiety

  • ego enacts behavior that’s opposite of true feelings
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Identification

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when a person changes some aspect of their personality to be like others

  • subconscious level
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Sublimation

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transfer of unwanted behaviors into something less harmful

  • only healthy defense mechanism
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Denial

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failing to recognize or acknowledge existence of info that causes anxiety

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Projection

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giving your ow unacceptable urges/qualities to others

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Rationalization

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justifying actions/feelings with another explanation- not true feelings

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Displacement

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redirection of impulse towards safer alternative

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Comprehension

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covering up weakness, frustrations and feelings of incompetence in ones life by striving excellence in another area

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Oedipus Complex

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  • unconscious desire for opposite sex parent - hostile toward same sex parent
  • boys and mom
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Electra Complex

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  • unconscious desire for opposite sex parent - hostile toward same sex parent
  • penis envy
  • girl and dad
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Hierarchy of Needs

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1: physiological
2: safety
3: love and belonging
4: esteem
5: self-actualization

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Physiological needs

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food, water, rest

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safety needs

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security

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Belonging

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relationships, friends

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esteem needs

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proud of accomplishments

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self-actualization

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achieve full potential

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unconditional regard

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“I will love you no matter what”

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conditional regard

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“I will only love you if…”

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positive regard

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sense of being and valued by others

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Openness

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low= prefer routine
uncreative

high= prefer variety
imaginative

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consciousness

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low = lazy
quitting

high = hardworking
ambitious

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extraversion

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low = loner
quiet

high = talkative
affectionate

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agreeableness

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low = suspicious
ruthless

high = trusting
soft- hearted

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neuroticism

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low = calm
unemotional

high = worrying
emotional

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Reciprocal Determination

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model that explains personality as the result of behavioral, cognitive and environmental interactions

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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  • set of 10 inkblots with no particular image
  • patient identify what they think it looks like and researchers interpret those identifications as personality characteristics
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TAT

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  • uses real pictures of objects/people
  • patient asked to say what is going on in picture, what happened before the event and what will happen
  • individual will project onto scene their hidden self

> use with caution

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MMPI

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  • most widely used test
  • has over 500 true/false questions

strengths:
- objective and same for everyone
weakness:
- lying, bad judgement of own behavior, tedious

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Self- efficacy

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belief people have ability to meet demands of a specific situation (successful or not)

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Abraham Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs

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Bandura

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Social cognitive

• understanding personality involves considering thoughts before, after and during a situation

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Trait Theory

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description and measurement of personality differences

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Personality

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persons unique consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior

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unconscious

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want you don’t know is there

- formed in early childhood

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preconscious

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you don’t know but can easily remember

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conscious

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what you know and remember

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Freud *

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most basic of all human instinct/desires live in unconscious mind
• sex and aggression

  • contains all our repressed thoughts, passions, desires
  • repressed feelings are blocked from conscious mind because it would be unsettling to know
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carl roger

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self concept :

set perceptions you hold about yourself

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Humanist perspective

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  • free will
  • self awareness
  • psychological growth
  • focus on healthy personality
  • conscious and subjective opinion of self is most important
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evaluation of humanism

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  • difficult to test or validate

- too optimistic

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evaluation of social cognitive perspective

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  • may not reflect complexity of human interactions

- ignores influence of unconscious, emotions and conflicts

55
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evaluation of trait perspective

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  • doesn’t explain why and how of personality

- doesn’t address how motives, unconscious or beliefs about self affect personality development

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