The Psychodynamic Perspective of Personality Flashcards
What is the unconscious mind?
The level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.
What is ID
The part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious. A pleasure-seeking, amoral part of the personality containing all of the basic biological drives: hunger, thirst, self-preservation, and sex. Needs need to be satisfied immediately, dont care about anyone else’s needs. The devil because it make demands
What is the pleasure principle?
A principle in which the id functions; the desires for the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequence. ‘if it feels good, do it’
What is ego?
A part of personality that develops out if a need to deal with reality; mostly conscious, rational and logical. The ego decides to deny the id it desires because the consequences would be painful or too unpleasant. The person caught in between the devil and the angel because it has to come up with a plan that will quiet the id but satisfy the superego.
What is the reality principle?
The principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result. ‘if it feels good, do it, but only if you can get away with it’
What is superego?
The part of the personality that acts as a moral center. The angel because it puts restrictions on how those demands are met
What is conscience?
The part of the superego the produces guilt, depending on how acceptable behaviour is.
What are psychological defense mechanisms?
The unconscious distortions of a person’s perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety.
What are some defense mechanisms?
Denial, Repression, Rationalization, Projection, Reaction formation, Displacement, Regression, Identification, Sublimation.
How did Freud believe that personality develops?
Through psychosexual stages which is five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to sexual development of the child.
What is fixation?
A disorder in which the person does not full resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behaviour associated with that earlier stage.
What is the oral stage?
The first stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages, occurring in the first 18 months of life in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict.
What is the anal stage?
The second stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages, occurring from about 18 to 36 months of age , in which the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is the source of conflict.
What is the phallic stage?
The third stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages, occurring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelings.
What is Electra complex?
A situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parents and jealousy of the same-sex parent. Males develop an Oedipus complex whereas females develop an Electra complex.
