PERSONALITY PSYCH Flashcards

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1
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Reasonably stable patterns of actions, feelings, and motives referred as

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Personality

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2
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Priscilla is a Psychologist. When she says that someone has a “personality”. What is she referring to?

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The person’s stable pattern of emotions, motives, and behavior.

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3
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Sigmund Freud was the first to develop a______theory of personality.

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Psychodynamic

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4
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According to the _______theories, the personality is characterized by a dynamic struggle or conflict.

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Psychodynamic

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5
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Which theories emphasize unconscious motives and inner conflicts?

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Psychoanalytic

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According to Freud, DRIVES such as_____and______ come into conflict with laws, social rules and moral codes.

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SEX; AGGRESSION

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FREUD found the odd medical disorders, such as the loss of feeling in one’s hand, often disappeared when individuals____________.

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Recalled and discuss stressful events.

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Freud concluded that the mind is like a(n)_______.

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ICEBERG

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9
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FREUD said that the mind is cmposed of which three parts?

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unconscious, preconscious, conscious

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According to Freud, the 3 levels of consciousness are

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Conscious, preconscious, unconscious

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Based on Freud’s theory, A traumatic childhood even that was repressed is store in the _________level.

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Unconscious

(Note:
repressed is unconsciously blocking thoughts about traumatic events and suppressed is consciously doing it)

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12
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The automatic rejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from awareness is

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Repression

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13
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Values right and wrong are contained in your

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Superego

(NOTE:
Id-impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain
Superego- judgmental and morally correct part of your personality
Ego- conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.)

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14
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EROS is aimed at preserving

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LIFE

(Note:

Eros is the drive of life, love, creativity, and sexuality, self-satisfaction, andspecies preservation.
Thanatos, from the Greek word for “death” is the drive of aggression, sadism, destruction, violence, and death.
As per FREUD)

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15
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Which of the following is the best illustration of an oral fixation?

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Someone who smokes

(Note: ORAL FIXATION could experience exaggerated desires for “oral activities” such as smoking, overeating, alcohol abuse, and nail biting)

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16
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Which person best illustrates the concept of conflict during ANAL STAGE?

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Sean is excessively neat and clean

(Note: In Anal stage involve excessive use of self-control:perfectionism, a strong need for order, and exaggerated neatness and cleanliness)

17
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Which best illustrates a child in the Phallic Stage of Psychosexual development?

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Billy acts out to get his Mother’s Attention whenever she is alone with his Father.

(Note:
In PHALLIC STAGE 3-6 yrs, male, unconsciously attached to Mother and being possessive of them -OEDIPUS COMPLEX, and ELECTRA complex is the female version)

18
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The period from age five to six years through adolescence is called_____.

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LATENCY (stage)

(Note:
Stages:
Oral- 0-1 year old
Anal-2-3 years old
Phallic-3-6 years old
Latency- 6 years old to puberty
Genital-beyond puberty

19
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The final stage of psychosexual development is the _____Stage.

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Genital

20
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What is Carl Jung’s Psychoanalytic theory called?

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Analytical Psychology

21
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According to Jung, primitive images contained in the collective unconscious called

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Archetypes

(Note:
ARCHETYPES -collectively-inherited unconscious idea, a pattern of thought, image, etc., that is universally present, in individual psyches, as inJungian psychology)

22
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Who developed Analytical Psychology?

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Carl Jung

23
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The difference between Jung’s Theory and Freud’s theory is that Jung

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Don’t emphasize the sexual instincts

24
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What is the collective unconscious Analytical Psychology made of?

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Primitive Images

25
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Which of the following represents an Archetype, According to Jung?

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-A fairy godmother
-The wise old man
-The All-Powerful God

All of these *