PERSONALITY PSYCH Flashcards
Reasonably stable patterns of actions, feelings, and motives referred as
Personality
Priscilla is a Psychologist. When she says that someone has a “personality”. What is she referring to?
The person’s stable pattern of emotions, motives, and behavior.
Sigmund Freud was the first to develop a______theory of personality.
Psychodynamic
According to the _______theories, the personality is characterized by a dynamic struggle or conflict.
Psychodynamic
Which theories emphasize unconscious motives and inner conflicts?
Psychoanalytic
According to Freud, DRIVES such as_____and______ come into conflict with laws, social rules and moral codes.
SEX; AGGRESSION
FREUD found the odd medical disorders, such as the loss of feeling in one’s hand, often disappeared when individuals____________.
Recalled and discuss stressful events.
Freud concluded that the mind is like a(n)_______.
ICEBERG
FREUD said that the mind is cmposed of which three parts?
unconscious, preconscious, conscious
According to Freud, the 3 levels of consciousness are
Conscious, preconscious, unconscious
Based on Freud’s theory, A traumatic childhood even that was repressed is store in the _________level.
Unconscious
(Note:
repressed is unconsciously blocking thoughts about traumatic events and suppressed is consciously doing it)
The automatic rejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from awareness is
Repression
Values right and wrong are contained in your
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.)
EROS is aimed at preserving
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)
Which of the following is the best illustration of an oral fixation?
Someone who smokes
(Note: ORAL FIXATION could experience exaggerated desires for “oral activities” such as smoking, overeating, alcohol abuse, and nail biting)
Which person best illustrates the concept of conflict during ANAL STAGE?
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)
Which best illustrates a child in the Phallic Stage of Psychosexual development?
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)
The period from age five to six years through adolescence is called_____.
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
The final stage of psychosexual development is the _____Stage.
Genital
What is Carl Jung’s Psychoanalytic theory called?
Analytical Psychology
According to Jung, primitive images contained in the collective unconscious called
Archetypes
(Note:
ARCHETYPES -collectively-inherited unconscious idea, a pattern of thought, image, etc., that is universally present, in individual psyches, as inJungian psychology)
Who developed Analytical Psychology?
Carl Jung
The difference between Jung’s Theory and Freud’s theory is that Jung
Don’t emphasize the sexual instincts
What is the collective unconscious Analytical Psychology made of?
Primitive Images
