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)