Personality Review Flashcards
Characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting
Personality
Personality emerges from unconscious motives and unresolved conflicts
Sigmund Freud
Interpret underlying unconscious motives and conflicts
Psychoanalysis
focus less on negative/sexual experiences
Psychodynamic Perspective
Exploring unconscious to bring to consciousness
Free Association
When unconscious becomes conscious
Preconscious
Unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories
Unconscious
Shoulder devil, what we want to do, pleasure principle
Id
shoulder angel, what you should do, morality principle
Superego
Kronk, what you can do
Ego
Id figuring things out
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
chewing, biting, sucking
Oral Stage
potty training
Anal Stage
body anatomy
Phallic Stage
gender identity
Latency Stage
dating/relationships
Genital Stage
Ego’s way of protecting us
Defense Mechanisms
block away as if it doesn’t exist
Homework, tests, chores
Repression
Go back to more comfortable states
Biting nails, phone as pacifier, fetal position
Regression
Refuse to accept or admit things
Homework, fights, punishments
Denial