Theoretical Basis of Personality and Behavior Flashcards
He is an austrian neurologist
Sigmund Freud
The father of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Means taking cure
Psychoanalysis
Is an inability to adapt and a tendency to experience excessive negative or obsessive thoughts and behaviors
Neurosis
Is most likely stress- or anxiety- related and is related to unresolved or repressed conflicts in earlier years of life
Neurosis
He believed that neurosis can be cured by making their unconscious conscious
Freud
Memories within awareness
Conscious Level
Controlled by the Ego
Conscious Level
Memories not presently within awareness but can be easily recalled
Preconscious Level
“Pleasure Principle”
Id
Present at birth
Id
Locus of instinctual drives
Id
Seeks instant gratification and has no regard for rules or social conventions
Id
Contains Eros and Thanatos
Id
means life instinct
Eros
Means death instinct
Thanatos
Begins to develop between 4 and 6 months
Ego
Experiences the reality of the external world, adapts and responds to it
Ego
Develops between 3 and 6 years old
Superego
Internalizes the values and morals set forth by primary caregivers
Superego
Reality Principle
Ego
Perfection Principle
Superego
Methods of attempting to protect the self and cope with basic drives or emotionally painful thoughts, feelings or events
Ego defense mechanisms
May be consciously or unconsciously carried out
Ego defense mechanisms
Unconscious refusal to admit an unacceptable idea or behavior
Denial
Unconscious and involuntary forgetting of painful ideas, events, and conflicts
Repression
Conscious exclusion from awareness anxiety- producing feelings, ideas, and situations
Suppression
Conscious or unconscious attempts to make or prove that one’s feelings or behaviors are justifiable
Rationalization
Consciously or unconsciously using only logical explanations without feelings or an affective component
Intellectualization
The unconscious separation of painful feelings and emotions from an unacceptable idea, situation, or object
Dissociation
Conscious or unconscious attempt to model oneself after a respected person
Identification
Unconsciously incorporating values and attitudes of others as if they were your own
Introjection
consciously covering up for a weakness by overemphasizing or making up a desirable trait
Compensation
Consciously or unconsciously channeling instinctual drives into acceptable activities
Sublimation
A conscious behavior that is the exact opposite of an unconscious feeling
Reaction Formation
Consciously doing something to counteract or make up for a transgression or wrongdoing
Undoing
Unconsciously discharging pent up feelings to a less threatening object
Displacement
Unconsciously (or consciously) blaming someone else for one’s difficulties or placing one’s unethical desires on someone else
Projection
The unconscious expression of intrapsychic conflict symbolically through physical symptoms
Conversion
Unconscious return to an earlier and more comfortable developmental level
Regression
A child’s attraction to the opposite sex parent and an associated sense of rivalry with same sex parent
Oedipus Complex
a fear of literal and figurative emasculation
castration anxiety