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Freud
Theories of Personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
09/27/2012

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Psychoanalysis
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Determinism
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forces over which we have little control determine all human behavior and experience
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Drive
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consist of eros and thanatos
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Conflict
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forces that determine all our behavior are in perpetual conflict which causes anxiety
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Unconscious
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experiences and memories of which we are not aware
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Conscious
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ideas/sensations of which we are aware
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Preconscious
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experiences unconscious to use but can become conscious with little effort (memories)
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Eros
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God of life, sexuality and all other life instincts
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Thanatos
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God of death, agression and all other death instincts
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Id
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home of the instinctual impulses (sex and aggression); operates on pleasure principle; unconscious
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Ego
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reality principle; relying on rational, logical thought; mediator; home of defense mechanisms
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Superego
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wanting to be ideal, perfect; strict, inflexible; conscience and ego-ideal
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Pleasure principle
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max. pleasure, min. pain
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Reality principle
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relying on logical, rational thought
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Conscience
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what makes us feel guilty when we do something wrong, develops out of punishment
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Egoideal
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develops out of good behavior, allows us to feel happy/proud when you do something correct
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Defense mechanism
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Repression
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unpleasant memories are forced into unconscious
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Suppression
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conscious attempt to obtian gratification for impulses by shifing them to substitute objects
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Denial
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refusal to acknowledge anxieity-provoking event
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Displacement
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unconscious attempt to obtain gratification for impulses by shifting them to substitue objects
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Sublimation
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form of displacement in which impluses are transformed rather than the object
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Regression
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movement form mature to immature behavior
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Projection
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attributes unacceptable internal states and qualitites to external objects, hypocritical
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Reaction formation
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conversion of impule into its opposite
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Rationalization
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justification of behavior
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Intellectualization
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dissociation of thoughts and feelings
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Undoing
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perform an action that cancels out the undesirable one
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Compromise formation
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contradictory behavior
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Identification
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forms enduring mental representation of significant others and replicate those traits
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Libido
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energy that he (Freud) is trying to understand
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Fixation
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when a piece of your engery/libido gets stuck at a stage
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Oral stage
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infancy; focus of pleasurable sensation is on the mouth; child is all id
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Anal stage
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2-3; pleasurable sensations focused on anal cavity; ego being differentiated from id
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Phallic stage
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4-5; pleasurable senations focused on genital area
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Oedipal complex
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castration anxiety, identification with father, Male
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Electra complex
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penis envy, identification with mother, Female
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Castration anxiety
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males experience this
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Penis envy
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females experience this
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Latency stage
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6-puberty; sexual development is at a standstill; learning to function in society
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Genital stage
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puberty; goal of mating
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Transference (positive, negative, counter)
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feelings originally directed towards the parents and are now directed toward the therapist
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Transference (positive
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positive feelings projected
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Transference negative,
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negative feelings projected
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Transference counter)
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therapist is placing something onto the patient
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Theory of motivation
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Why sexuality and aggression are primitive instincts
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because our primitive instincts are to max. pleasure and min. pain
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Why we are in constant conflct
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between our primitive urges and society constraint AND within ourselves is inevitable
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3 Parts of our mental life
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consious, preconscious, uconscious
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Why material is stored in the unconscious
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because it would cause pain in the conscious, it still has a large effect on our functioning
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Theory of the psyche
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id, ego, super ego
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How the 3 components affect us
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3 sources of conflict
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realistic, neurotic, and moral anxiety
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Why we develop defense mechanisms
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our ego gets overwhelmed
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Free association
Definition
patient reports any thoughts that occur without restriction; parapraxis-malfunctions in language (i.e. slip of the tough, misreading, mishearing)
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Dream analysis
Definition
probing the unconscious through dream interpretation
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Psychoanalytic therapy
Definition
therapy emphasis on roles of biological and unconscious factors in determination of behavior, goal is to increse self-understanding, more accurate assessment of reality, understand conflict
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