Week 10 Flashcards
What is personality
A person’s unique, fairly consistent pattern of behaving, feeling, and thinking
What are the three levels of consciousness
Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious (unconscious thoughts are the most important)
What is repression
Occurs when threatening thoughts or feelings are kept in the unconscious mind.
What are the three structures of our personality
id: Inborn biological drives
ego: Directs us to express biological drives in a socially acceptable
superego: moral guide
What are defence mechanism
Distortions of reality that allow individuals to escape from feelings of anxiety
Regression
Reversion of immature behaviours that have helped alleviate feelings of anxiety in the past
Rationlization
Providing socially acceptable reasons to justify inappropriate behaviour
Diesplacement
Expressing feelings to a person who is less threatening in place of the more threatening target of those feelings
Projection
Taking your own undesirable feelings and attributing them to others
Reaction formation
Acting in a manner that is opposite to what you are feeling
Sublimation
Using socially acceptable outlets for sexual or aggressive impulses
What is fixation and what did Freud believe
Failure to mature beyond a certain psychosexual stage of development. Freud believed that personality stays at 5 years
What is an inferiority complex
Motivates individuals to strive for surperiority
What is social interest
When the striving helps others and oneself which is the healthiest way to overcome an inferiority complex
What is the personal unconscious
The individuals unconscious mind which is the home of repressed memories