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Personality - 3 Flashcards

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1
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Psychoanalysis is

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A theory of personality

A bake five to procedures relating to personality change or treatment

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What did freud try to explain personality based on

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Influence of early childhood
Unconscious motives and conflict
How people cope with their sexual and agressive urges

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What are the 3 levels of awareness

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Conscious level - currently aware of

Preconscious level - not in our current awareness but can be if we focus

Unconscious - contains sexual and agressive drives, sting influence on behaviour

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How is a Freudian slip explained

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May express hidden wishes, the unconscious breaks into the conscious

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What did freud think about dreams

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Dreams are thought to show a persons inner thoughts or real intentions

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What content is in dreams

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Manifest content - what we remember

Latent content - the hidden meaning

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Why does a nightmare happen

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When the repressed wish breaks through

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How is freuds theory deterministic

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All behaviour is determined by forces within the person

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What is psychic energy and cathexis

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Psychic energy - source of motivation, limited amount, used for psychological functioning

Cathexis - investment of psychic energy, direct energy to different pleasurable activities

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What are the 3 main structures in Freuds model of personality

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Ego
Superego
ID

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Describe the ID

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Represents physiological drives 
Aye resent from birth 
Aye Netanyahu gratification 
Ignores laws and social conventions 
Fully unconscious

PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

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The ego

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Developed in 1st year of life
Reason and good sense
Delays gratification of ID by planning what is practical and possible socially acceptable, avoids trouble

REALITY PRINCIPLE

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Super ego

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Developed years 3-5
Moral guidance and conscience
High standards of behaviour through identification
Right and wrong are internalised

MORAL PRINCIPLE

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What is behaviour the result of according to freud

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Result of internal conflicts between id ego and superego

Conflicts lead to frustration which lead to tension which lead to anxiety

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Why may anxiety arise

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Ego worrying if will become out of control and do something bad

Superego become out of control leading to excessive guilt about a real or imagined situation

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16
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What do we develope because of anxiety

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DEFENCE MECHANISMS

17
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What are defence mechanisms

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Mainly unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt

Ok if not used excessively

18
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What is repression

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Forget things that cause anxiety

19
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What is regression

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Revert to immature patterns of behaviour

20
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What is denial

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Refuse to accept the true nature of the situation

21
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What is displacement

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Transfer ideas and feelings from their original source to a less threatening object

22
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What is sublimation

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Channelling of impulses into the behaviour that benefits society

23
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What is reaction formation

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Behave in a way that is the exact opposite of ones tie feelings

24
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What is rationalisation

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Create false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behaviour

25
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What is projection

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Attribute thoughts that make us feel guilty into other as if the actions come from them

26
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Fixation

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Get stuck at an immature stage

27
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What is identification

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Identify with more powerful people to boost self esteem

28
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What did freud propose about psychosexual development

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Personality develops a fixed sequence of psychosexual stages

Personality is the result of sexual impulses and their gratification at these stages

29
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What are drives, eros and thanatos

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Drives - inborn psychic forces that produce states of excitement and tension

Eros - instinct to preserve life- fuelled by Libido
Life instinct

Thanatos - basic aggressive drive death instinct

30
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Which parts of the body is libido expressed through

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Erogenous zones

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