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What are projective tests?

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Personality assessment instruments based on Freud’s concept of projection

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What are 2 types of projective tests?

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  1. Rorschach Inkblot test
  2. Thematic Apperception test (TAT)
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What is psychic determinism ?

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Freud’s assumption that all mental and behavioral reactions are caused by unconscious traumas, desires, or conflicts

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What are Freudian Slips?

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Psychic determinism

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Why was Freud criticized for of his subjects?

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They were all wealthy women in Austria

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Why are Freud’s results criticized?

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They are not empirically verifiable AKA Really hard to test

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Why was Freud criticized for his role of unconscious and childhood?

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He overemphasized them

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What characteristic of Freud was he critiqued for?

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He was too deterministic

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What did Karen Horney say about Freud’s “penis envy” theory and why?

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Said he was sexist and that there is actually a “womb envy” instead

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Who are neo-freudians?

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People who accept Freud’s basic ideas [id, ego, superego, importance of unconsciousness, the shaping of personality in childhood, and dynamics of anxiety and defense mechanisms] but not in other areas like the role of sexual desires play

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Who are the 3 important neo-freudians?

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  1. Carl Jung
  2. Karen Horney
  3. Alfred Adler
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How does Carl Jung describe personal unconciousness?

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A portion of the unconscious corresponding roughly to Freud’s ID

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What did Carl Jung include to expand the concept of unconsciousness?

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collective unconscious

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What is collective consciousness?

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Jung’s addition to the unconscious, involving a reservoir for instinctive “memories” including archetypes, which exist in all people

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What is personality?

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Psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual’s behavior in different situations and at different times

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According to which theories, is personality a continuously changing process shaped by our internal needs and cognitions and by external pressures from out social environment?

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Cognitive, psychodynamic, and humanistic theories

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What is psychoanalysis?

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Freud’s system of treatment for mental illnesses

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What is psychoanalytic theory?

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Freud’s theory of personality

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What is the unconscious?

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A psychic domain of which the individual isn’t aware, but is the storehouse of repressed impulses, conflicts, an drives that are unavailable to consciousness

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What are the 3 drives within the unconscious mind?

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eros, thanatos, and libido

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What does eros drive people towards?

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Drives people towards acts that are sexual, life-giving, and creative

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What is the eros drive also known as?

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The sex drive

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What does libido drive people to do?

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To experience sensual pleasure AKA something you do for fun
Ex) Watch Tv

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What does Thanatos drive people towards?

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Aggressive and destructive behaviors

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Which 3 parts does Freud say our personality is split into?

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Id, superego, and ego

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What principal does Id operate on?

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Pleasure principal

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What is id?

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Primitive, unconscious portion of personality that houses most basic drives and stores repressed memories

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What principal does superego operate on?

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Morality principal

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What is the superego?

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The mind’s storehouse of values & moral attitudes learned from parents and society

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What is the superego the same as?

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The common notion of conscience

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What principal does ego operate on?

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Reality principal

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What is ego?

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The conscious, rational part of personality

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What is ego charged with?

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Keeping peace b/w id and superego

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What is animus?

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The male archetype

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What is anima?

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The female archetype

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What type of archetype is the shadow?

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The destructive and aggressive tendencies that we don’t want to recognize in ourselves

37
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What did Carl Jung’s Principal of opposites include?

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Introversion & extroversion

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What is introversion?

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Having alone time and focusing on inner experience

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What is extroversion?

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Turning one’s attention outward, towards others

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What is the inner experience in introversion?

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Focusing on one’s own thoughts and feelings

41
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What did Karen Horney say men have?

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Womb envy

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What did Karen Horney believe development can be blocked by?

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Basic anxiety

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What is basic anxiety?

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An emotion that gives a sense of uncertainty and loneliness on a hostile world and can lead to maladjustment

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What does basic anxiety lead to if unresolved?

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Neurotic needs

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What are neurotic needs?

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Normal human needs that are carried to an extreme
Ex) Affection: Teen who is super clingy

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What did Alfred Adler believe was the driving force in creating personality?

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The desire to overcome inferiority

47
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What is the inferiority complex?

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A feeling of inferiority that’s largely unconscious, with its roots in childhood

48
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What is compensation?

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Making up for one’s real or imagined deficiencies

49
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What did Alfred Adler say about 1st borns

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Responsible, leaders
(most CEOs)

50
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What is birth order?

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Position one has among siblings

51
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What did Alfred Adler say about 2nd borns

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Competitive & have a lot of compensation

52
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What did Alfred Adler say about youngest borns

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Loud and stubborn

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What did Alfred Adler say about middle borns

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Good at conflict negotiation & people-person

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What did Alfred Adler say about only borns

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Independent, well-spoken, all qualities of positions

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