Personality Flashcards
What is personality?
Unique characteristics that account for enduring patterns of inner experience and outward behaviour
Who embraces the psychodynamic perspective
Freud, Alfred alder, carl jung, Karen horney
What are defense mechanisms
Tactics that emotionally protect us
What is the denial mechanism
Refusing to recognize an unpleasant reality
What is the repression mechanism
Keeping unpleasant memories or thoughts buried in the unconscious
What is rationalization
Creating a socially acceptable excuse to justify unacceptable behaviour
What is reaction formation
Not acknowledging negative impulse and over emphasizing their opposite
What is projection
Transferring ones unacceptable qualities or impulses onto others
What is displacement?
Diverting ones impulses onto a more acceptable target
What is sublimation
Channeling socially unacceptable impulses into acceptable activities
What is regression
Reverting to immature ways of responding
What is identification
Enhancing self esteem by imagining or forming alliances with others
What is intellectualization
Ignoring troubling emotional aspects by focusing on abstract ideas or thoughts
What are arguments against Freuds psychoanalytic theory
Inadequate evidence, cannot be tested scientifically, lack of predicted power
What is Freuds psychoanalytic theory?
People are heavily influenced by their unconscious mind
What is psychoanalysis
A type of therapy based on his theory of discovering ones unconsciousness
What are the three forces of personality
Id, ego, superego
What is ld?
Basic instinctual drives. Seek pleasure, avoid pain
What is ego
Rational thoughts, realistic part of the personality
What is superego
Moral limits, leads us to feel guilt
What are the psychosexual stages
Id pleasure seeking tendencies that focus on one area of the body
What are the structures of personality
Consciousness, preconsciousness, unconsciousness
Who believes people are on a quest for superiority?
Alfred alder
What does Carl Jung believe
That unconsciousness is split into collective and personal parts
