Personality Flashcards
Id
Unconscious mind, our base desires and instincts
Superego
part conscious and part unconscious, developed from time when we learned rules
the ‘rule follower’
Ego
part conscious and part unconscious, manages needs of id while being conscious of rules of superego
Result is how we act
Freud
Father of Psychodynamic perspective, was sexually repressed
Defense Mechanisms (RRRRDDIPCS)
Rationalization
Reaction formation (Replacing unacceptable feelings with acceptable ones)
Regression
Repression (Can’t remember at all)
Denial
Displacement (take it out on something else)
Intellectualization (wax poetic about emotions)
Projection
Compensation
Sublimation (Want sex so do something else)
Freud’s Stages
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
Oral stage
18 months, pleasure zone is mouth
Oral fixation: Overindulging in food, smoking, biting
Anal stage
18-36 months, zone is anus
holding and releasing of bowels and toilet training
Anal retentive
Children who refuse to go
Very organized and controlling
Anal expulsive
Child who makes a mess on purpose
Likes trying new things, disorganized
Phallic Stage
3-6 yrs
Kids discover difference between boys and girls
Penis anxiety and penis envy
Oedipus and Electra complex
Phallic fixation
inappropriate sexual behavior
Latency stage
6 yrs - puberty
push sexual feelings aside and develop in other ways
Genital stage
Puberty onwards
Sexual feelings come back for others
entry into adult social and sexual behavior
Jung
Personal and collective unconscious
Ancient fears and memories that we all have
Adler
Driving force is seeking of superiority
Birth order affects development
Horney
Men have womb envy and feel the need to compensate
Children have a basic anxiety of the world
Behaviorist perspective
Learned responses or habits (conditioning)- everything done is response to stimuli that has been reinforced or punished
Social cognitive learning
Observational and modeling + other techniques shape personality
Social cognitive perspective
Behavior governed by external stimuli and response patterns (conditioning) + cognitive process (anticipation, judging, memory) + imitation learning
Bandura
3 factors influence personality: Environment, behavior, personal or cognitive factors from past.
They all link to each other in a circle
Self efficacy
Bandura
Person’s expectation of how effective their efforts to accomplish goal are based on similar past experiences
Low=expect to fail high= expect to succeed