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Psychoanalytic or psychodynamic theories of personality

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Have the assumption unconscious internal states that motivate the overt actions of individuals and determine personality

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Id

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All the basic, primal, inborn urges to survive and reproduce. Functions according to pleasure principle

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Pleasure prinicple

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Aim is to achieve immediate gratification to relieve any pent up tension

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Ego

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Operates according to the reality principle which takes into account objective reality as it guides or inhibits the activity of the id or the id’s pleasure principle.

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Relationship between ego and superego

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Ego is responsible for moderating the desires of the superego

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Superego

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Personality’s perfectionist, judging our actions and responding with pride at our accomplishments and guilt at our failures.

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3 main categories for id, ego and superego

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Thoughts to which we have conscious access
Thoughts that we aren’t currently aware of (preconscious)
Thoughts that have been repressed (unconscious)

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2 types of instincts according to Freuid

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Life and death

Life: Promote quest for survival, thirst, hunger and sex
Death: Unconscious wish for death and destruction

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8 defense mechanisms

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Repression
Suppression
Regression
Reaction formation
Projection
Rationalization
Displacement
Sublimation
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Assumption of rorschach ink blot?

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Person will project their unconscious feelings onto the shape.

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Important Jungian archetypes

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Persona: The aspect of our personality we present to the world
Anima: The man’s inner woman
Animus: The woman’s inner man
Shadow: Unpleasant and socially reprehensible thoughts, feelings and actions in our consciousness

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Humanistic theorists

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Focus on the value of individuals and take a more person-centered approach

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Type A personality

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Behavior that tends to be competitive and compuslive

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Type B personality

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Laid back and relaxed

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Big five traits of personality

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Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
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Pneumonic for Big 5

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OCEAN

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2 most well known behaviorists?

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Skinner and Pavlov

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Fixation

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Occurs when a child is overindulged or overly frustrated during a stage of development

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5 stages of psychosexual developement

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oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital

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Oral stage

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(0-1)

Gratification is obtained primarily through putting objects in the mouth, biting, and sucking. Libido energy is centered on the

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Anal stage

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1 to 3 years

The libidoIs centered on the anusIn gratification is gainedThe elimination and retention of waste materials

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Phallic or oedipal stage

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(3-5) Centers on the resolution of the Oedipal conflict for male children for the analogous electra conflict for female children.

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Latency stage

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Once libido is sublimated, and then lasts until puberty

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Genital stage

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In Puberty and lasts through adulthood. Person starts to enter into heterosexual relationships

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Self concept

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Our own internal list of answers to the question who am i?

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Self schema

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The self-given labels that carry with it a set of qualities.

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Gender Identity

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Describes a person’s appraisal of him or herself on a scale of masculinity and femininity

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Androgyny

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Defined as the state of being simultaneously very masculine and very feminine

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Undifferentiated

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Low scores on both masculinity and femininity scales

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Ethnic Identity

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Refer’s to one’s ethnic group, in which members typically share a common ancestry, cultural heritage and language

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Nationality

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Based on political borders. Based on result of shared history, media, cuisine, and national symbols, such as a flag.

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Hierarchy of salience

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The hierarchy to which our identities are organized such that we let the situation dictate which identity holds the most importance for us at any given moment

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Actual self

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The way we see ourselves as we currently are

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Ideal self

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The person we would like to be

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Ought self

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Our representation of the way others think we should be

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Self-efficacy

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Our belief in our ability to succeed

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Learned helplessness

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When one accepts their fate of helplessness because of prior experiences and does not try to change their situation

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Locus of control

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Refers to the way we characterize the influences in our lives.

Internal locus views themselves as controlling their own fate.

External locus feel that events in their lives are caused by outside influences

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