Textbook chap 12 Flashcards
What three features provide a more comprehensive understanding of personality?
Uniqueness
Consistency
Explanation (processes of personality)
What processes of personality provide different perspectives?
Biological processes, emotional processes, mental processes
What is the Freudian concept that entails that individuals express personality by individual subconscious processes and conflicts?
Psychodynamic perspectives
What are the three regions of the Freudian iceberg?
Conscious mind at the top, preconscious mind right under the water, and subconscious mind deeper
What is preconscious mind?
It is mental information one may not be thinking but would be able to recall easily
According to Freud, what is the difference between manifest content and latent content and in what context does this arrive?
In dream analysis, manifest content is what the subject remembers and is disguised, and the latent content is the true reflection of the unconscious mind
What principle does the ID act on?
The pleasure principle
What are eros and thanatos?
Eros - sexual impulses
Thanatos - unrestrained aggression
What emotions are ego associated with?
It is responsible for pride when code is followed, and shame and guilt when code is violated.
What are the types of anxiety to Freud?
Reality - real danger
Moral anxiety - ego is considering violating a moral code
Neurotic anxiety - threatening expression of id impulse
What is the principle defense mechanism Freud outlined?
Repression
Why are defense mechanisms employed?
To disguise/ keep from expressing anxiety
What are the 8 defense mechanisms?
- Repression -forcing distress into the subconscious
- Reaction formation - expressing unacceptable things as the opposite consciously
- Projection - attributing negative thoughts to others
- Regression - Responding with childlike activity
- Sublimation - Transforming inappropriate impulses into socially acceptable ones
- Denial - A refusal of facts
- Rationalization - Creating an acceptable explanation of things
- Displacement - Shifting unwanted impulse to a less threatening person
What happens when a psychosexual stage of Freud’s development conflict is not resolved?
The person is fixated there and will regress there when under stress.
