Personality 1 Flashcards
Psychic Determinism
Everything you say and do comes from somewhere in your mind.
Internal structure
What is doing the determining
Id
Pleasure principle. (sex, domination, power)
Ego
Reality principal .
Super Ego
Morality (guilt, shame)
Explain the study on reaction formation. (Homophobic)
Homophobic men and non homophobic men asked to watch a video of homosexual sex. testing arousal. Both reported they werent but the test showed that the homophobic men were extremely aroused
Projection and example of the study giving back bad feedback
Taje your unwanted feelings and put it on someone else.
Took a personality test and got back bad feedback. When they watched a video the people with the bad feedback rated the people in the video worse on bad traits they tried to suppress.
Displacement & ex. of study on evaluating an essay
takes impulse you want to take out and changes it from being targeting at a dangerous subject to something less dangerous.
Participants reading an essay gave insulting feedback. They placed the aggression game- the people put there aggression towards the direct insulter instead of the random person. This did not support.
Denial & explain the study on disabled people
Refusing to believe knowledge.
Disabled and non disabled were asked to view slides and quickly a disabled or nondisabled person would flash. it took the disabled participants more trials to get correct
Libido
Energy directed toward different issues at different stages of life
Oral character is either-
- all needs are met immediately or needs are ignored
All needs are met immediately creates an adult who is-
becomes overly dependent oral character
Needs are ignored creates an adult who is-
overly independent, has no social relationships
Neo-Freudians are not focused on:
- less focus on sex/ aggression
- less emphasis on the unconscious
- Less focus on instincts
Neo-Freudian 3 common themes
- libido is creativity
- Focus on how someone perceives reality
- interpersonal relationships
Adlers theory on inferiority complex
Everyone percieves themselves as inferior. Strive for superiority.