Week 3 Flashcards
Mental Processes
- Conscious: rational, goal directed
- Preconscious: information easily made conscious
- Unconscious: repressed, irrational thoughts
Drive Model
- Sexual Drive: pleasure seeking, sensuality and love
- Agression drive: sports, boredom
Freud’s Psychosexual Development Model
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Latent
- Genital
Oral Stage
Age: 0 - 18 months
Conflict: become aware on their dependence to their mother.
Fixation: clingy, needy, strong need for approval.
Anal Stage
Age: Around 2 years
Conflict: Become aware of judgments, order, control
Fixation: extreme neatness (retentive) or extreme messiness (expulsive)
Phallic Stage
Age: 4 - 6 years
Conflict: Gender idenity, covert t one parent
Fixation: Differs with gender role, males can become harsh and destructive, women can become emotional.
Latency Stage
Age: 7 - 11 years
Conflict: Chidlren learn to supress their desires and maintain their ego.
Fixation: Comfort found in self denial.
Genital Fixation
Age: 12 and up
Conflict: Sexual maturity, new desires as well as anxiety
Fixation: Sexual obsessions or partial fixations.
3 Mental Forces
ID: Sexual and agressive energy.
EGO: Balance between desire and reality.
SUPEREGO: Conscience.
Defensive Mechanisms
- Repression
- Denial
- Projection
- Reaction formation
- Sublimation
- Rationalisation
- Regression
- Passive agression
Cattell’s Traits
- Warm
- Emotionally stable
- Cheerful
- Suspicious
- Intelligent
- Tense
- Imaginative
- Sensitive
OCEAN
- Openness to experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extroversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
Openness to experience
Fantasy, intellectual ideas, flexible.
Conscientiousness
Order, self discipline, dutifulness.
Extroversion
Warmth, excitement seeking