Psychodynamic approaches to personality

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long standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways.

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Personality

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Believed that the distances between bumps on the skull reveal a persons personality traits, character, and mental ability.

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Franz Gall

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Everyone could be sorted into one of four temperaments with no overlap.

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Immanuel Kant

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suggested that a better description of personality could be achieved using emotional/nonemotional and changeable/unchangeable.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Who had the first theory of personality?

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Sigmund Freud

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pyschosexual stage in which children experience pleasure in their bladder and bowel movements.

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Anal Stage

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unconscious protective behaviors designed to reduce ego anxiety.

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defense mechanism

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ego defense mechanism in which a person transfers inappropriate urges or behaviors toward a more acceptable or less threatening target.

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displacement

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aspect of personality that represents the self, or the part of ones personality visible to others.

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ego

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pyschosexual stage in which the focus is on mature sexual interests.

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genital stage

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aspect of personality that consists of our most primitive drives or urges, including impulses for hunger, thirst, and sex.

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id

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psychosexual stage in which sexual feelings are dormant.

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latency period

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tendency to experience negative emotions

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neurosis

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psychosexual stage focused in which an infants pleasure is in/on the mouth

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Oral stage

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psychosexual stage in which the focus is on the genitals.

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phallic stage

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ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety disguises their unacceptable urges or behaviors by attributing them to other people.

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projection

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stages of child development in which a child’s pleasure-seeking urges are focused on specific areas of the body called erogenous zones.

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psychosexual stages of development

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ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety makes excuses to justify behavior.

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rationalization

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ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral state.

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regression

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ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety swaps unacceptable urges or behaviors for their opposites.

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reaction formation

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ego defense mechanism in which anxiety-ridden thoughts and memories are kept in the unconscious.

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repression

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ego defense mechanism in which unacceptable urges are channeled into more appropriate activities.

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sublimation

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Jung’s theory focusing on the balance of opposing forces with ones personality and the significance of the collective conscious.

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analytical psychology

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pattern that exists in our collective unconscious across cultures and societies.

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archetype

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common psychological tendencies that have been passed down from one generation to the next.

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collective unconscious

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refers to a persons feelings that they lack worth and don’t measure of to society’s standards.

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Inferiority Complex

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Importance of individual psychology and social connections

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Alfred Adler

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Alfred’s 3 fundamental social tasks that are experienced

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Occupational (Career), Societal (Friendships), Love tasks (Intimate partner)

Question 29

Introverts and Extroverts

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Carl Jung