psychoanalytic/psychodynamic Flashcards
childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence presonality
psychoanalytic theory
focused on inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment
humanistic theories
examine characteristic patterns of behavior
trait theories
interaction between people’s traits and their social context
social-cognitive theories
an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feelings, and acting
personality
theories that view personality with a focus on the unsconscious and the importance of childhood experience
psychodynamic theories
- Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
- the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tension
psychoanalysis
freud: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, withes, feelings, memories
contemporary psych: information processing of which we are unaware of
unconscious
method of exploring the unconscious in which the person says whatever comes to mind
free association
reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
operates on the pleasure principle and demands immediate gratification
id
the executive part of personality that mediates among the demands of id, superego, and reality
operates on reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure, not pain
ego
the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspiration
superego
the childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure seking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
psychosexual stages
[Freud]
a boy’s sexual desirtes toward his mother and feelings of hatred or jealousy for the rival father
Oedipus complex
the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superego
identification
