Pesonality Vocab Flashcards
Psychoanalysis
Technique for therapy that exposes and interprets underlying conflicts and motives for doing something by Freud.
Going deeper like looking at an x ray instead of looking at the skin
Personality
Individuals unique thinking, feeling, and acting pattern.
Every persons finger print is different
Psychodynamic Perspective
A view of personality sort of like Freud’s but does not see childhood conflicts as part of personality development.
Previous car crashes do not affect how the car is currently
Free Association
Where the patient says whatever comes to mind
Like free writing
Preconscious
Consists of thoughts and memories not originally known
Like the bottom of an iceberg under water
Unconscious
A reserved region of the mind that holds unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
The very bottom of the iceberg under the water
Id
Operates on the pleasure principle and is unconscious, psychic energy and strives to satisfy drives.
I want it and I want it now!
Superego
Internalized ideals and standards.
What we should do, not what we’d like to do
Ego
Between the superego and the id and decides which is better. Reality principle
The mediator in an argument or judge.
Defense Mechanisms
Used by the ego to distort reality.
Reassuring that doing this one thing won’t be that bad
Psychosexual stages
Pleasure speaking focus on different parts of the body
Stairs
Inferiority complex
Unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings
Feeling bad about yourself all the time
Collective conscious
Shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our ancestors
Stories, myths, art
Projective tests
Provide insight to test takers unconscious motives
Why you are doing something
Thematic apperception test
Images are shown that are ambiguous.
Asking people what is the prettiest color?
Rorschach inkblot test
Test of what a person sees in each of ten inkblots to discover their feelings.
Seeing a gun instead of what most people see as something else could mean aggression
Humanistic psychology
Focuses on fulfilled individuals who want to help everyone reach their potential.
People who want to tutor or be a psychologist, or help people in need
Self actualization
The motivation to fulfill ones potential
Wanting to make all a’s and succeed in life
Unconditional positive regard
Total acceptance towards another person
Not caring about their disease or race but accepting them for who they are
Self concept
All thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to quest who am I?
If we think of ourselves as smart, or a failure
Sigmond Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler
Social tension is more important than sexual tension in development in personality
Having friends is more important
Carl Jung
Freudian who believed that humans share a collective unconscious
Shared memory from ancestors
Karen Horney
Found psychoanalysis negatively biased towards women and cultural variables are the foundation of personality development.
Culture is more important
