Psychology of Personality Flashcards
What does Eric Fromm’s humanistic psychoanalysis look at?
perspective of psychology, history, anthropology and history.
Who influenced Fromm?
Bible, Freud, Marx, and socialist ideology
What is Fromm’s basic assumption?
humans have been torn away from their prehistoric union with nature and left with no powerful insticts to adapt to a changing world. Because we have the ability to think and reason, we can think about our isolated condition.. the human dilema
How can our human dilemma be solved?
By fulfilling our uniquely human needs , an accomplishment tha tmoves us toward a reunion with the natural world.
Name the 5 distinctively human needs and explain each?
Relatedness- submission, power and love.
Transcendence-transcend nature by destroying or creating people or things
Rootedness- establish roots to feel at home again.
Sense of identy- awareness of ourselves as a separte person
Frame of orientation- road map or consisten philosophy by which we find our way into the world
What is the burden of freedom?
humans are freaks of the universe. As we gained more political freedom, we begain to experience more isolation from the world. As a result, freedom becomes a burden and people experience anxiety
Name the 3 mechanisms of Escape and explain each one?
Authoritarianism- give up ones independence and unite with a powerful partner,
Destructiveness- do away with epole or other things
Conformity- surrendering of ones individuality in order to meet the wishes of others
What is positive freedom?
The resolution for the human dilemma. It is the spontaneous activity of the whole, inegrated personality and which is acheived when a perosn becomes reunited with others
Name the character orientations?
1) Using things (assimilation)
2) Relating to self and others (socialization)
They can do these productively or nonproductiviely
Name the 4 non productive orientations and explain them?
receptive orientation- source of all good lies outside themselves- they receive things
exploitive orienteation- source of good lies outside themselves but they agressively take what they want rather than passively receiving it
Hoarding- save what they have already obtained including opinions, feelings and possessions
Marketing- sees themselves as commodities and value themselves agains the critier of their ability to sell themselves.
Explain the Positive Orientation
Psychologically healthy people work towards positive freedome through productive work, love and reasoning. The Passionate love of life is Biophillia
Name 3 personality disorders and explain each
Necrophilia- love of death and hatred of humanity
Malignant narcissim- Everything belonging to oneself is of great value and everything else is worthless
Incestuous Symbiosis- extreme depencenc on ones mother or mother surrogate
What was the goal of Fromms Psychotherapy
Work towards safisfaction of basic needs of relatedness, trancendence, rootedness, sence of identy and frame of orientation. This is accomplished through shared communication.
Discuss Fromms Method of Investigation
Fromms personality theory rests on date he gathered from a vareity of sources including psychotherapy, culthural anthropology and psychohistory
What did from Find in the mexico experiement?
All of the character orientations except for the marketing one
What historical person did From study? and what syndrom did he have?
Adolph HIlter, syndrom of decay ( all three personality disorders
Explain Sullivans Interpersonal Theory?
Even though he had a lonely childhood, he emphasized the importance of interpersonal relationships. He insisted that personality is shaped by the relationships we have with other people. He developed developmental stages
What are Sullivans two tensions and explain both? Tension is the potential for action; Energey transformation is the actions themselves
1) Needs- general well being of a person or to specific body zones. Needs can be physiological such as food or oxygen or tenderness. They are conjunctive.
Anxiety-Disjunctive and calls for no consistent actions for its relief. . It is the chief disruptive force in interpersonal relationships
What is Euphoria?
complete absence of anxiety and other tensions
Name the 4 Dynamisms and explain each?
1) Malevolence- disjuntive of evil and hatred. LIving among ones enemies
2) Intimacy- Conjunctive, close personal relationship between 2 people of equal status. Decreases anxiety and loneliness
3) Lust- isolating dynamism. Self centered that can be satisfied in the absence of in intimate interpersonal relationship.
4) Self System- most inclusive of all dynamisms. Pattern of behavior that protect us against anxiety and maintains our interpsonal security. Conjuctive, It stifles personality change.
Experinces that are inconistent with our self system threaten our security and necessitate our use of security operations which consist of behaviors to reduce tensions. Name the 2 security operations.
Dissociation- we block from awareness
Selective inattentions- blocking only certain experiences
Name the 3 Personsonifications and explain each?
1) Bad mother, Good mother- grows out of infant experiences with a nipple that does not sastify even though the mother is nuturing and loving.
Me Personification- consistes of bad me, good me, not me. Bad me is from punishment, Good me is from reward and approval. Not me is from dissocate or not attending the experiences
Eidetic Personification- Imaginary traits projected onto others. . Imaginary friends.
Name and explain the 3 levels of cognition?
1) Protaxic- experiences that impossible to put into words. These are momentary and incapable of being communicated.
Parataxic-Prelogical and nearly impossible to communicate
Syntaxic-can be accurately communicated to others.Words have same meanings (12 to 18 months old)
Discuss Sullivans Infancy Stage of development
birth until syntaxic language is used. The child receives tenderness from the mothering one. Also learns anxiety through an empathic linkage with mother. Anxiety may increase to terror but it is controlled by apathy and somnolent detachment. Children use autisc language which takes the place of protaxic and parataxic
Discuss Sullivans Chldhood Stage
Beginning from syntaxic language until the need for playmates of equal status. Primary interpresonal realtionship continues to be with mother, who is now differentiated from other persons
Discuss Sullivans Juvenilee Stage
Need for peers of equal status until the child develops a need for an intimate relationship with a chum. Children should learn to compete, compromise and cooperate
Discuss Sullivans Preadolesence
Most crucial stage of development because mistakes made earlier can be corrected during preadolescence. Errors made during are nearly impossible to overcome later in life. Spans from the need for a single best friend until puberty. Children who do not learn intimacy at this stage will have difficulties later in life.
Discuss Sullivans Early Adolescence
lust dynamism. co-existence of intimacy with a single friend of the same gender and sexual interest in many persons of the opposite genter.
Discuss Late Adolescence
Anytime after or about age 16. Person feels intimacy and lust towards the same person. Stable pattern of sexual activity and the growth of the syntaxic mode.
Disoredered behavior has an interpersonal origin and can only be understood how?
by refering to a persons social environment
What is participant observer (Sullivan)?
Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a patient. He is concerned with understanding patients and helping them develop foresight and improve relations and their ability to to operate on a sytaxic level
What is co-rummination associated with?
better friendshps for both boys and girls. It is assoicated with more depression for gils but not for boys,.
Children who have imaginary friends develop higher levels of ?
creativity, imagination and intelligence
Explain Eriksons post Fruedian theory
8 stages of development. He differed from Freud in his emphasis on ego and social influences.
Who pychoanalyzed Erik Erickson
Ana Freud
What was Eriks contribution to personality theory?
emphasis on ego rather than id functions. the ego is the center of personality and is responsible for for a unified sense of self
Name the 3 parts of the ego?
body ego, ego ideal, and the ego identity
What is a pseudospecies?
fictional nottion that they are superior to other cultures
What is the Epigenic principle?
it grows according to a genetically established rate and in a fixed sequence