Unit 9 Flashcards
personality
a person’s broad, long-lasting patterns of behavior
free association
a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
psychoanalysis
personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
unconscious
a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings
ego
mediates id and superego
id
completely unconscious wants, needs, desires
superego
morality,angel
identification
children incorporate parents’ values into developing superego
repression
pushing things back into mind because they cause guilt
regression
retreat to child-like behavior
reaction formation
ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites
defense mechanism
ego distorts things to accept us
projection
disguise own problems issues by attributing them to others
fixation
lingering focus on pleasure-seeking in the early stages
rationalization
one makes excuses instead of focusing on the real issue
displacement
shifts sexual impulses toward a less-threatening person
sublimation
re channel unaccepted impulses into socially approved activities
oral
pleasure centers on mouth (0-18 months)
anal
pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination (18-36 months)
phallic
pleasure zone on genitals (3-6 years)
latency
dormant sexual feelings (6 to puberty)
genital
maturation of sexual interests (puberty +)
archetypes
inherited universal concepts appearing all throughout history
collective unconscious
all archetypes taken together
terror management theory
thinking about our own morality living in a threatening world