Personality - Chapter 13 - Vocabulary

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

A person’s unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that exist over time and situations

Question 2

Psychoanalysis

Answer 2

The term used to describe Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality and treatment.

Question 3

Pre conscious

Answer 3

Thoughts that are unconscious at the particular moment, but are not repressed - therefore making the thoughts available for recall later.

Similar to Working Memory.
(think of the skill needed to ride a bike… not in everyday consciousness, but available when needed)

Question 4

How were CARL JUNG’s ideas about personality similar to S. Freud, and how were they different?

Answer 4

Similarity
CARL JUNG believed an ID (personal unconsiousness)existed, like S. Freud.

Difference
Carl Jung believed in a COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESS.
Here, archetypes exist: suppressed knowledge and experiences we share as a species.

Question 5

What are the types of ARCHITYPES Carl Jung thought existed?

Answer 5

1. anima / animus
   Anima = the female image in the male psyche
   Animus = the male image in the female psyche
2. Persona
   How others know you / the “face” you put on for others in public.