Unit 10 Ap Psych Flashcards
An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Personality
Freud s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
Psychoanalysis
According to Freud, an area of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
Unconscious
Pleasure principle, area of personality set to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, what’s immediate gratification
Id
Punches, mediates among the id and super ego. The personality the world sees. Reality principle.
Ego
Represents internalized, and provides standards for judgment. Moral principle.
Superego
0-1
Children derive pleasure from oral activities, including sucking and tasting. They like to put things in their mouth
Oral STAGE
2-3
Children begin potty training
Anal Stage
3-6
Boys are more attracted to their mother, while girls are more attracted to their father
Phallic stage
6 years old to puberty
Children spend more time and interact mostly with same sex peers
Latency stage
Beyond puberty
Individuals are attracted to opposite sex peers
Genital stage
Why does the ego use defense mechanisms
To reduce the anxiety and guilt caused by the conflict between the id and superego
A defense mechanics, that is automatic, no conscious thought, ejection or rejections of traumatic or negative desires and thoughts
Repression
Defense mechanism where an individual consciously retreats back to an infantile reaction, or time period
Regression
A defense mechanism where an individual refuses to accept the truth
Denial
A defense mechanism where an individual says or does the opposite of what they’ re actually thinking
Reaction formation
A defense mechanism where an individual projects or directs their weaknesses onto other people
Projection
A defense mechanism where an individual provides justifications, or excuses, to make behaviors or thoughts acceptable
Rationalization
A defense mechanism where an individual takes out their anger or feelings on a less threatening target- someone or something that cannot fight back
Displacement
A defense mechanism that occurs when socially acceptable impulses are transformed into socially acceptable behaviors
Sublimation
A defense mechanism that occurs when an individual attempts to erase a negative action with a positive one
Undoing
Carl Jung
Neo- Freudian
Collective Unconscious- Shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our history
Karen Horney
Neo-Freudian
Social relationships
Moving toward relationships
Moving against relationships
Moving away relationships
Alfred Adler
Neo-Freudian
Inferiority complex- Motivation and desire to overcome childhood inferiorities through being superior in life during adulthood
Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
Projective tests
Most widely used projective test- usually a set of 10 inkblots that seek to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations
- Herman Rorschach
Rorschach Test
Thematic Apperception Test- Given ambiguous scene, interpret their inner feelings through the story they create from the theme
TAT Test
Helps people reach their human potential through development of a healthy self-concept, emphasis of free will. Our personality is designed to provide a potential for personal growth.
Humanistic Psychology