Unit 2 Flashcards
The self
Regulating center of the psyche
Shadow
Opposite of the ego image
Anima
Feminine image in a mans psyche
Animus
Masculine image in a woman’s psyche
Inferiority complex
Alders theory that if one becomes too inferior they become feeling hopeless
Festinger
Social comparison: upward and downward
Competitive emulation
Families try to keep up with their neighbours materialistically
Maslow’s Hierarchy
Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, esteem needs, self actualization
Sherif
Cave experiment, in group out group dynamic & hostility
Robert Merton
Deviance
Melvin Seeman
Social isolation
5 stages of alienation
Powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, social isolation, self estrangment
Powerlessness
- wanting to join a sports team but not thinking you’re good enough
3 types of suicide
Altruistic- dying for a greater cause, for a group
Egoistic- dying because they feel guilty
Anomic- dying because they feel isolated, life is rendered meaningless (ie. Death of a parent)
Charles Cooley
Looking glass self
3 parts of charles cooley
1) we envision how we appear to others
2) we envision the judgement of that appearance
3) sense of self develops
Sublimation
Redirecting incorrect urges into socially acceptable actions
Reaction formation
Converting anxious thoughts into their opposite; low self esteem but acts macho in front of others
Ego involved learners
Student who focuses on how well they are performing and how they are judged by others
Locus of Causality
Location of the action, internal or external
For Carl Jung, describe the difference between the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious
Personal: houses memories of personal experiences
Collective: inherited by us all, and identical
