Short Summaries Flashcards
Key points re: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Sex & aggression
Stages of mental life
Provinces of the mind
stages of development
Key points re: Adler’s Individual Psychology
SOCIAL
Striving force and feelings of inferiority. Compensate by developing social interest & success – or personal superiority.
Key points re: Jung’s Analytical Psychology
JUNG/OLD
Ppl inherit collective unconscious, including archetypes.
Key points re: Klein’s Object Relations Theory
4 - 6 mos, infant’s drives directed to an object, deal with nurturing/frustrating breast by splitting
Key points re: Horney’s psychoanalytic social theory
HORNEY - MOVE
Social, cultural influences more important than biological ones
Competitive. Lack safety & sat. -> anxiety
Neurotic trends
Key points re: Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory
ERIK’S 8
8 stages including a struggle btwn syntonic/distonic, and a basic strength.
Key points re: Fromm’s Humanistic Psychoanalysis
FROMM NATURE
Torn away from natural world and each other, yet have power of reasoning, foresight, imagination.
Only the five human needs can help unite with others and nature.
Key points re: Maslow’s Holistic-Dynamic Theory
Motivation affects whole person
Four dimensions of need: conative, aesthetic, cognitive, neurotic.
Key points re: Rogers’ Person-Centered Theory
MR. ROGERS/IDEAL
Formative; actualizing tendencies.
Self-actualizing: self-system moving to fully functional person
Three selves
Key points re: Allport’s Psychology of the Individual
CENTRAL AIRPORT
Personality: dynamic org. of psychophysical systems.
Common traits and three types of personal dispositions: cardinal, central, secondary.
Key points re: McCrae and Costa’s Five-Factor Trait Theory
NEO-PI (NEO-AC)
Key points re: Eyesenck’s Biologically Based Factor Theory
3 bipolar factors: extraversion/introversion, neuroticism/stability, psychotics/superego
Hypothetico-deductive approach
Eye Need 3 People
Key points re: Buss’ Evolutionary Theory of Personality
Evolution has two basic problems: survival & reproduction
Key points re: Skinner
Only overt behavior can explain behavior. Operant and classic conditioning.
Key points re: Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory.
Observational learning. Functioning via triadic reciprocal causation: environment, behavior, personal factors.
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