Personality

Question 1

What is structure of personality

Answer 1

The way personality processes are organised

Question 2

What is the topographic model

Answer 2

Freud’s model of conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. Conscious- rational goal directed thoughts at centre of awareness
Preconscious - below surface of conscious, brought up at any time.
Unconscious- irrational , organised along associative lines and repressed.

Question 3

What is conflict and ambivalence

Answer 3

Ambivalence is conflicting motive and feelings.

Question 4

What is the drive model

Answer 4

Drive model (or instinct model) is focused on what motivates or drives people.
Freud proposed two drive- sex and aggression

Question 5

What is the development model

Answer 5

Are the psychosexual stages In the development of personality, sexuality and motivation

Question 6

What are the psychosexual stages

Answer 6

Oral- 0-18months (dependency)
Anal- 2-3 yrs (orderliness,cleanliness,control
Phallic- 4-6yrs (identification with same sex parents, establish conscious
Latency- 7-11yrs ( stimulation of sexual and aggressive impulses
Genital - 12+ (mature sexuality and relationships)

Question 7

What is personality

Answer 7

Personality is patterns of thought, feeling, motivation, and behaviour that are expressed in different circumstance

Question 8

Oral stage

Answer 8

Infants putting everything in mouth- nourishment and social nourishment
At this stage kids develops expectations about dependence as they are dependent on caregivers
Difficulties during the oral stage can to dependency

Question 9

Anal stage

Answer 9

Characterised by conflicts with parents about compliance + defiance
Freud- kid discovers the anus to be pleasurable.
anal fixations can result in the need for control, cleanliness and orderliness