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Psychology Unit 7 Part Two Flashcards

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Personality

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An individual’s characteristic patten of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Sigmund Freud Psychoanalytic Theory

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Childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

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Psychodynamic theories

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Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

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Psychoanalysis

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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 tensions

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Freud believed that psychological troubles came from

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Men’s and women’s unresolved conflicts regarding their expected roles

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Unconscious

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According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. According to contemporary psychologists information processing of which we are unaware

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Free Association

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In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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Preconscious area

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Freud’s idea of unconscious thoughts that can be retrieved into conscious

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Id

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A reservoir of unconscious psych energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification

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Ego

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The largely conscious “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain

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Superego

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The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations

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Psychosexual stages

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The childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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Phallic stage

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Boys develop both unconsious sexual desires for their mother and jealousy and hatred for their father

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Oedipus Complex

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According to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Ages for Freud’s psychosexual stages

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Oral - 0-18 months
Anal - 18-36 months
Phallic - 3-6 years
Latency - 6 to puberty
Genital - Puberty and on

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Freud’s psychosexual stages: oral

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Pleasure centers on the mouth: sucking, biting, chewing

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Freud’s psychosexual stages: Anal

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Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

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Freud’s psychosexual stages: Phallic

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Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

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Freud’s psychosexual stages: Latency

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A phase of dormant sexual feelings

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Freud’s psychosexual stages: Genital

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Maturation of sexual interests

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Identification

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The process by which Freud says children incorporate their parents values into their developing superego

Gave them gender identity and alignment with parent’s values

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Fixation

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Freud says that a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved

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Freud thinks anxiety

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is the minds way to protect others, by inflicting impulses on itself

id vs. superego war

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Defense mechanisms

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The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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For Freud, all defense mechanisms function
indirectly and unconsciously
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Repression
The basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories Underlies all other defense mechanisms says freud
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Ways neo-freudians broke off from him
1. placed more emphasis on the conscious minds role in interpreting experience and in coping with the environment 2. Doubted that sex and aggression where all consuming motivations
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Carl Jung
Neo-freudian that suggested the collective unconscious
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Collective Unconscious
Carl Jungs concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history Led to connection to epigenetics
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Projective Tests
A personality test such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
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Thematic Association Test (TAT)
A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
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Pros of TAT testing
1. Can assess achievement and affiliation motivation 2. Consistent over time by each patient
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Rorschach inkblot test
The most widely used projective test; a set of 10 inkblots, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
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Modern critiques of Freud's work
1. Development is lifelong, not just childhood 2. Infant neural networks may not be able to sustain emotional trauma as well as Freud thought 3. Overestimates peer and family influence 4. Gender identity is gained earlier BIGGEST PROBLEM: It provides an after the fact explanation rather than a predictable theory
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Critiques on Repression
While we many preserve our self-esteem by neglecting threatening information, but repression is a rare mental response High stress and associated stress hormones enhance memory
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Which three Freudian defense mechanisms do modern scientists currently support?
Reaction Formation, Projection and Terror-Management Theory
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What do researchers now call projection?
False Consensus Effect
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False Consensus Effect
Tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
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Defense mechanisms seem motivated less by the sexual and aggressive undercurrents that Freud imagined than by our need to protect our ______
self image
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Terror-Management Theory
A theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
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Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and Sigmund Freud are
Humanistic theorists
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Humanistic Theories
Theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth
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Humanistic theorists went against science by
studying people through their own self-reported experiences and feelings
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Self-actualization
According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential
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Self-transcendence
According to Maslow; the striving for identity, meaning, and purpose beyond the self
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Peak experiences
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Carl Rogers
Person-centered perspective
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Person-centered perspective
Carl's Rogers theory that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies
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Carl Rogers believes that growth-promoting social climate provides
Acceptance, Genuineness, and empathy
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Unconditional positive regard
A caring, accepting, non judgmental attitude which Carl Rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
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Self-Concept
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
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Negative vs. Positive Self Regard
Positive: We tend to act and perceive the world positively Negative: We fall short of our ideal self
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Humanistic Psychologists dislike personality questionaries because they think it
Categorizes people's unique experiences into rigid boxes
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Criticism of Humanistic psychology
1. Vague and subjective: is there a scientific definition of open people? 2. Emphasis on individualism could promote self-indulgence 3. Does not acknowledge the human capacity for evil
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Traits
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act in certain ways, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
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Factor Analysis
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of test items that tap basic components of a trait
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Hans and Sybil Eysenck
We can reduce many of our normal individual variations into two dimensions: extraversion-introversion and emotional stability-instability
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Biopsychosocial: Personality
Bio: - Extraverts have low brain arousal thus seek stimulation (frontal lobe area involved in behavior inhibition is less active) - Selective breeding can concentrate personality traits in animals Psycho:
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Personality Inventory
A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes
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Empirically Derived
A test (such as the MMPI) created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups
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Robert McCraw and Paul Costa
Made the Big Five Traits
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Big Five Personality Factors
CANOE: Conscientiousness: Agreeableness: Neuroticism: Openness: Extraversion
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Big Five Traits: stability
Maturity principle: We become more conscientious, agreeable and less neurotic as we age
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Big Five Traits: Heritability
Heritability runs about 40 percent for each dimension
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Big Five Traits: Brain structure
High on conscientiousness have larger frontal lobe areas (aid in planning and controlling behavior) High in neuroticism have brains wires to experience stress intensity
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Big Five Traits: Birth Order
No association
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Big Five Traits: Culture
Aligns in all human groups
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Big Five Traits: predictability
Yes
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Person-Situation Controversy
is our personality based more on inner disposition or from our environment
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With age, personality traits become more
stable
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A person's average traits persist over time and are predictable over many different situations but
traits cannot predict behavior in any one particular situation
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Social-cognitive perspective
Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context
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Albert Bandura
Social-cognitive perspective
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Behavioral Approach
Focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development
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Reciprocal determinism
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
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Self
In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings and actions
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Spotlight Effect
Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)
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Self-esteem
One's feelings of high or low self-worth
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Self-efficacy
One's sense of competence and effectiveness
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
Ignorance of one's own incompetence
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Self-Serving Bias
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably
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Narcissism
Excessive self-love and self-absoption
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Individualism
Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
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Collectivism
Giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly

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