Personality Flashcards
Unconscious Mind
Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories; free association - ask patients to say whatever comes to their minds; Dream Analysis - interpretation of manifest and latent contents of dreams
Id
Satisfy basic sexual and aggresive drives; operates on the pleasure principle
Ego
Mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality; reality principle
Superego
Standards for judgement (the conscience); morality principle
Personality Development
Personality forms during the first few years of life divided into psychosexual stages
Oedipus Complex
Sexual desires toward mother; feelings of jealousy for father - results in feeling guilt and fear of punishment
Repression
Banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
Regression
Retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage (childlike behavior)
Projection
Disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others
Rationalization
Offer self-justifying explanations
Reaction Formation
Express feelings that are the opposite
Displacement
Shifts impulse toward less threatening object or person; redirecting toward a safer outlet
Sublimation
Rechannel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities
Collective Unconscious
Common reservoir of images derived from our species’ past
Archetypes
Inherited universal human concepts like mother or hero
Projective Test
Provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
People express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Seeks to identify people’s inner feeling by analyzing their interpretation of the blots
Identification
Superego gains strength that incorporates their parents’ values
Psychoanalysis
Freud’s theory attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
