Psychodynamic approaches to personality Flashcards
long standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways.
Personality
Believed that the distances between bumps on the skull reveal a persons personality traits, character, and mental ability.
Franz Gall
Everyone could be sorted into one of four temperaments with no overlap.
Immanuel Kant
suggested that a better description of personality could be achieved using emotional/nonemotional and changeable/unchangeable.
Wilhelm Wundt
Who had the first theory of personality?
Sigmund Freud
pyschosexual stage in which children experience pleasure in their bladder and bowel movements.
Anal Stage
unconscious protective behaviors designed to reduce ego anxiety.
defense mechanism
ego defense mechanism in which a person transfers inappropriate urges or behaviors toward a more acceptable or less threatening target.
displacement
aspect of personality that represents the self, or the part of ones personality visible to others.
ego
pyschosexual stage in which the focus is on mature sexual interests.
genital stage
aspect of personality that consists of our most primitive drives or urges, including impulses for hunger, thirst, and sex.
id
psychosexual stage in which sexual feelings are dormant.
latency period
tendency to experience negative emotions
neurosis
psychosexual stage focused in which an infants pleasure is in/on the mouth
Oral stage
psychosexual stage in which the focus is on the genitals.
phallic stage
ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety disguises their unacceptable urges or behaviors by attributing them to other people.
projection
stages of child development in which a child’s pleasure-seeking urges are focused on specific areas of the body called erogenous zones.
psychosexual stages of development
ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety makes excuses to justify behavior.
rationalization
ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral state.
regression
ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety swaps unacceptable urges or behaviors for their opposites.
reaction formation
ego defense mechanism in which anxiety-ridden thoughts and memories are kept in the unconscious.
repression
ego defense mechanism in which unacceptable urges are channeled into more appropriate activities.
sublimation
Jung’s theory focusing on the balance of opposing forces with ones personality and the significance of the collective conscious.
analytical psychology
pattern that exists in our collective unconscious across cultures and societies.
archetype
common psychological tendencies that have been passed down from one generation to the next.
collective unconscious
refers to a persons feelings that they lack worth and don’t measure of to society’s standards.
Inferiority Complex
Importance of individual psychology and social connections
Alfred Adler
Alfred’s 3 fundamental social tasks that are experienced
Occupational (Career), Societal (Friendships), Love tasks (Intimate partner)
Introverts and Extroverts
Carl Jung
