Personality Flashcards
the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives,
and behavior that distinguish one
person from another
Personality
Sigmund Freud’s perspective, which
emphasizes the importance of
unconscious motives and conflicts as
forces that determine behavior
Psychodynamic theory
Stages of Psychosexual Development
-Oral
-Anal
-Phallix
-Latency
-Genital
is persistent, genetic and meassurable
unique behaivior and thinking
Personality
the psychic structure, present at
birth, that represents physiological
drives and is fully unconscious
Id
the psychic structure, present at
birth, that represents physiological
drives and is fully unconscious
Ego
the third psychic
structure, which functions as a
moral guardian and sets forth high
standards for behavior
Superego
in psychodynamic theory, the process
by which libidinal energy is expressed
through different erogenous
zones during different stages of
development
Psychosexual Development
the first stage of
psychosexual development, during
which gratification is hypothesized
to be attained primarily through oral
activities
oral stage
the second stage of
psychosexual development, when
gratification is attained through anal
activities
Anal Stage
the third stage
of psychosexual development,
characterized by a shift of libido to
the phallic region
Phallic Stage
a conflict
of the phallic stage in which the boy
wishes to possess his mother sexually
and perceives his father as a rival in
love
Oedipus Complex
a conflict of
the phallic stage in which the girl
longs for her father and resents her
mother
Electra Complex
a phase of psychosexual
development characterized by
repression of sexual impulses
Latency
the mature stage
of psychosexual development,
characterized by preferred expression
of libido through intercourse with an
adult of the other gender
Genital Stage
Jung’s psychodynamic theory,
which emphasizes the collective
unconscious and archetypes
Analytical Psychology
Jung’s hypothesized store of vague
memories that represent the history
of humankind
Collective unconscious
feelings of
inferiority hypothesized by Adler to
serve as a central motivating force
Inferiority complex
according to Adler,
the self-aware aspect of personality
that strives to achieve its full
potential
Creative self
Adler’s psychoanalytic theory, which
emphasizes feelings of inferiority and
the creative self
individual psychology
Erikson’s theory of personality and
development, which emphasizes
social relationships and eight stages
of growth
psychosocial development
a firm sense of who
one is and what one stands for
Ego Identity
▸ Believed Freud placed
too much emphasis
on sex
▸ Spoke of psychosocial
development,
not psychosexual
development
▸ Labeled stages of
development according to
traits, not erogenous zones
▸ Argued that ego identity,
not genital sexuality, was
key goal of adolescence
Erik Erikson
a relatively stable aspect of
personality that is inferred from
behavior and assumed
Trait