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1
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Who made the psychodynamic perspective

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Sigmund Freud

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Name 6 key ideas of the Psychoanalytic perspective

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Behavior motivated through sex
Most causes of behavior are unconscious
Early childhood is super important
Dreams, slips of the tongue
Hypnosis, free association aka spontatneous speaking, dream ananlysis
Eros= life instinct
Libido= creative energy
Thanatos= death
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3
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Levels of consciousness

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Conscious= current awareness
Preconscious= easily brought to awareness
Unconscious= unaware thoughts
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Structure of Personality

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Id= young impulsive devil on shoulder
Ego= the compromise, head in between
Superego= moral conscience, the Angel
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5
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Too much id

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Neurotic anxiety

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6
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Too much superego

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Moral anxiety

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7
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Adult characteristics according to psychodynamic perspective are determined by what two factors

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What happens at each psychosexual stage

How successful you move through each stage

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8
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Fixation

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Remaining at one stage

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Regression

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Returning to previous stage

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10
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How many stages are part of Freud’s psychosexual theory

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5

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11
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What happens during oral stage

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Pleasure around mouth
Oral aggresive= frustration and anxiety
Dependent= conforming, trusting

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12
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What happens at anal stage

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Focus on potty training
Expulsive= rebels by being dirty
Retentive= orderly, clean

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13
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Phallic stage

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Genital area
Oedipus complex= sexual attraction to opposite sex parent
MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

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14
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Latency stage

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No interest in sex

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15
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Genital stage

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Lust and affection probes

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16
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What are 4 Neo-Freudians

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Alfred Adler
Karen Horney
Carl Jung
Erik Erikson

17
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Adler’s 3 main things

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Striving to be superior
Compensation
Birth order

18
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Horney’s 3 main things

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Basic anxiety= child fells helpless in world
Basic hostility= how child reacts to being rejected
Womb envy= response to penis envy (men want to carry a baby)

19
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Carl Jung

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Freud’s crown prince
Collective unconscious (human memories of how to survive)
Archetypes (universal symbols)
Personal unconscious= where personal memories stored
Introversion/Extraversion
Persona

20
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Erikson’s main thing

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Psychosocial theory of development
8 stages
Formed by social influences
Psychohistory= study of individuals using history and psychoanalysis

21
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Humanism

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Emphasizes positive and creative nature of humans

Aka the Third Force

22
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2 ppl for humanism

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Carl Rogers

Abraham Maslow

23
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Rogers main things

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Self-concept=beliefs about oneself
Positive self-regard= person feeling good about oneself
Unconditional self-regard= other ppl feeling good about one person
Ideal self= idealized image of oneself
Congruence/ in congruence= actual self and ideal self must match

24
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Abraham Maslow things

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Hierarchy of needs
Self-actualization= process of striving to be the best you
Peak experiences= characteristics of the self-actualized

25
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Bandura

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Social cognitive perspective
Observational learning
Reciprocal determinism= behavioral+cognitive+environmental factors cause behaviors

26
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William Sheldon

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Somatype theory
Body appearance = personality
Endomorph= soft appearance
Mesomorph= muscular
Ectomorph=thin frail
27
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Trait perspective is what by what 2 ppl

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Traits= which cause ppl to act in a certain way
Gordon Allport
Raymond Cattell

28
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Allport things

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Traits=building blocks of personality
Cardinal= main trait
Central= 2/3 next traits
Secondary= other characteristics

29
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Cattell things

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Surface (what ppl see) vs. Source (underlying)

16PF test

30
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What must personality tests be

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Reliable= consistent
Valid= measure what it's supposed to measure
31
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Projective tests are and examples

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Uncover unconscious thoughts or desires
Rorschach
TAT
House Tree Person

32
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Self-Report Inventories are and examples

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Questionnaires
MMPI-2
CPI
16 PF

Psychology 115 Test 2 (3 decks)

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