Personality, Motivation, Emotion and stress Flashcards
What is the life course perspective?
Approach developed to understand individual lives from a cultural, social and structural perspective.
What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
Asserts that personality is shaped largely by the unconscious.
Who is sigmund freud?
suggests that libido and death instinct motivates human behavior.
What is id?
Responsible for our desire to avoid pain and seek pleasure.
What is ego?
Responsible for our logical thinking and planning as we deal with reality.
What is superego?
Responsible for our moral judgments of right and wrong and strives for perfection.
What are Freud’s psychosexual stages?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital
What age is the oral stage?
0-1
What age is the anal stage?
1-3
What age is the phallic stage?
3-6
What age is the latency stage?
6-12
What age is the genital stage?
12+
What is a Kinsey scale?
scale to measure sexuality. High = more homosexual
Low = more heterosexual
What are Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development?
Trust vs Mistrust (Infancy) Autonomy vs Shame (Early childhood) Initiative vs Guilt (Preschool age) Industry vs Inferiority (School age) Identity vs Role confusion (Adolescence) Intimacy vs Isolation (Young adulthood) Generativity vs stagnation (Middle age) Integrity vs Despair (Later life)
What is the humanistic perspective (by rogers)?
Asserts that humans are driven by an actualizing tendency to realize their highest potential, personality conflicts arise when this is somehow thwarted.
