Personality 4 Flashcards
psychoanalytic
aka psychodynamic
importance of childhood and unconscious
defense mechanisms are
majority of personality developed during
gender roles come from
fully unconscious
childhood
phallic stage
latency stage extra
defense mechanisms kick in sublimation (activities sublimating sexual desires) reaction formation denial repression
best things about freud
started discussion on unconscious
defense mechanisms
childhood important
inferiority complex
adler
kids all treated as inferior, everyone has it
will to power
adler
over time establish, realize have power over own life, normalize inferior
horney changes
inferiority complex becomes basic anxiety (inferior to world)
penis envy becomes power envy (women feel inferior to power men have)
allport
trait hierarchy/constellation
label people without explanation
cattell
factor analysis
eysenck
extraversion, emotionality, narrow down, four fluids (use terminology not actual fluids)
barnum effect
people are suckers for labels
love to get labels if
1. told specifically designed for them
2. the slightest bit positive
compensation
emphasizing personal strengths in one area to shift focus from failure in another area
denial
refusing to accept an obvious situation because of the emotional pain it causes
displacement
taking out one’s anger or frustration on a person or object that is not the cause of the offense
identification
associating with people or groups that are of higher status in order to increase your own status
intellectualization
describing painful or emotional personal events in abstract academic or philosophical terms
projection
casting the feelings you have onto another person
blaming another person for the feelings you have
rationalization
making logical excuses for illogical or unacceptable behavior
reaction formation
replacing feelings that are socially or personally unacceptable with opposing emotions that are acceptable
regression
reverting to childlike behavior to get the attention you got when you were younger or to get your way
repression
unconsciously forgetting information that is too painful to recall
sublimation
using acceptable activities such as exercise as a substitute for sexual energies
passive aggressiveness
unassertive expression of negative sentiments