TOP Flashcards
Which is more stable: Personality or Behavior?
Personality
According to Allport, what is personal disposition/trait?
a general neuropsychic structure UNIQUE TO THE INDIVIDUAL with the capacity to:
- Render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and
- Instigate and guide consistent (equivalent) forms of adaptive and stylistic behavior
What are the core principles of Sigmund Freud?
Id, Ego and Superego
Id is guided by which principle and thought?
Pleasure principle
Primary process thought
When is egodeveloped?
6 mos
Ego is guided by which principle and thought?
Reality principle and secondary process thought
With superego, rewards and punishments produces?
Rewards = Ego ideal Punishment = Conscience
Which of the cores produces anxiety?
The SUPEREGO produces anxiety by remembering previously punished actions. Anxiety is a tension that we always want to reduce.
What is cathexis?
The EGO forms a this for objects that reliably produce tension reduction of libidinal energy.
What is counter-cathexis?
SUPEREGO forms a this to block energy discharge until a realistic and morally acceptable object of gratification is found.
What is fixation?
Fixation occurs when the Id is over gratified or under gratified. Fixation is incomplete personality development.
Psychosexual Stages by Sigmund Freud
Oral Stage Anal Stage Phallic Stage Latency Period Genital Stage
Which stage in Psychosexual stages when the oedipus/electra complex exists?
Phallic stage
Psychosexual stages: Oral Stage
0 mo. - 6 mo. Oral incorporative (erotic, dependent)]
6 mo. - 1 yr. Oral aggressive (sadistic)
Psychosexual stages: Anal Stage
1 YR. TO 2-3 YR.
Anal retentive (under gratify)
Anal Expulsive-aggressive (over gratify)
Psychosexual stages: Phallic Stage
3-4
Phallic Character #1-no labels (over gratification)–a dramatic, histrionic person
Phallic Character #2-no label (under gratification)–a withdrawn, schizoid person
Psychosexual stages: Latency Period
5-6 yrs. until puberty.
Psychosexual stages: Genital Stage
Puberty till death
Unconscious or Conscious: Defense Mechanism
Unconscious
Unconscious or Conscious: Id
Unconscious
Unconscious or Conscious: Ego
conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
Unconscious or Conscious: Superego
conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
Difference of conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
Conscious: What we are aware of in the present time
Preconscious: Memories that can be recalled with sufficient cues.
Unconscious: Memories forced into the unconscious (and very difficult to retrieve) because they are very anxiety provoking. Also, certain psychological processes (e.g., ID functions and defense mechanisms) are unconscious.
Major defense mechanism during oral stage
IDENTIFICATION, INTROJECTION,
PROJECTION, DENIAL
Major defense mechanism during anal stage
RATIONALIZATION,
REACTION-FORMATION
Major defense mechanism during phallic stage
Repression
Major defense mechanism during genital stage
DISPLACEMENT, SUBLIMATION,
REGRESSION
What are the primitive defense mechanisms?
Denial Regression Acting out Dissociation Compartmentalization Projection Reaction Formation
What is denial?
refusal to accept reality or fact
What is regression?
reversion to an earlier stage of development in the face of unacceptable thoughts or impulses
What is acting out?
performing an extreme behavior in order to express thoughts or feelings the person feels incapable of otherwise expressing
What is dissociation?
when a person loses track of time and/or person, and instead finds another representation of their self in order to continue in the moment
What is compartmentalization?
parts of oneself are separated from awareness of other parts and behaving as if one had separate sets of values.
What is projection?
misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses
Cause of projecting to someone?
result of a lack of insight and acknowledgement of one’s own motivations and feelings
What is reaction formation?
converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites.
What is repression?
unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses
What is displacement
redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out upon another person or object
What is intellectualization
overemphasis on thinking when confronted with an unacceptable impulse, situation or behavior without employing any emotions whatsoever to help mediate and place the thoughts into an emotional, human context.
What is rationalization?
putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one’s perceptions or behaviors in the face of a changing reality
What is undoing?
the attempt to take back an unconscious behavior or thought that is unacceptable or hurtful
What is sublimation?
simply the channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts and emotions into more acceptable ones.
What is compensation?
process of psychologically counterbalancing perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength in other arenas
What is assertiveness?
emphasis of a person’s needs or thoughts in a manner that is respectful, direct and firm.
Freud’s Clues to Unconscious
Hypnosis
Slips of Tongue
Psychoanalysis
Dreams`
What is the goal in psychoanalysis?
Insight
Psychoanalytic theorists
Sigmund Freud Carl Jung Alfred Adler Karen Horney Melanie Klein Erik Erickson Henry Murray
According to Carl Jung, what is the difference between complexes and archetypes?
Complexes - contents of PERSONAL unconscious
Archetypes - contents of COLLECTIVE unconscious
What is an archetype? (Carl Jung)
universal form or predisposition to characterize thoughts or feelings. Archetypes are inherited through the collective unconscious. Archetypes represent the memories of our ancestors, which we inherit. cumulative effect of perpetually repeated experiences on the human nervous system’s development
What is a mandala according to Carl Jung?
a symbolic representation of Personality. Each of the elements in Personality shares in the overall energy, which is called LIBIDINAL energy.
What is the principle of opposites?
Carl Jung - various elements of personality are continually opposed to one another
What are the 3 stages of development according to Jung’s Theory
- Survival - 1 to 5 y/o
- Individuation 6 to 40 y/o
- Transcendence 40 to death
Equivalence vs Entropy
A. Equivalence: A change in energy in 1 part of a system will result in a change in another part.
B. Entropy: The distribution of energy in a system seeks a state of equilibrium (balance).