Psychoanalytic Perspectives on personality Flashcards
Free association & associated psychologist
Mentioning something and asking what the first thing that comes to mind is. Freud
What was the goal of the “talking cure”
That by talking through it you will understand your own mind and be able to help yourself
Psychic determinism
Everything that happens in a person’s mind has a specific cause, no “forgetting”
3 assumptions of “mental energy”
Mind needs energy to function, energy is fixed and infinite, energy can build
What does fixed and finite energy refer to?
You can only do one thing at a time well
Is there any basis in “energy will build over time”
No, held in emotions often diminish
In order, what are the stages of sexual development
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
When is the oral phase?
Birth to 18 months
What is the adult character type of the oral phase
Independent vs passive
When does the anal phase occur?
18 months to 3 years
What is the adult character type of the anal phase
Over vs under controlled
When does the phallic phase occur?
3.5 to 7 years old
What is the adult character type of the phallic phase?
Rigid vs lack of moral code, asexuality vs promiscuity
When does the latency phase occur
7 years to puberty
When does the genital phase occur
Puberty onwards
What are the adult character types associated with the genital phase
Maturity and psychological/menthal health
Which psychologist classifies development stages as a “crisis” that need to be overcome
Erikson
Collective unconscious
All people share inborn memories/ideas that reside in the unconscious
Archetypes
Basic images at the core of how people think about the world
Persona
Social mask that one wears in public
According to Jung, what are the 4 basic ways of thinking
Rational, feeling, sensing, intuiting
What are the 6 critique of psychoanalytic theory
1 excessive complexity
2 Based on introspection
3 Vague definitions
4 Can’t be proven false
5 Sexism
6 Focus on ideas that aren’t really established/ignored
Parallel distributed processing
Only small fraction of mind doing “conscious” tasks
Humanism
Things that are distinctive about humanity
