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Personality Chapter 12 - Dr. Saiger
unexhaustive but a good resource nonethelss
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
12/30/2009

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Term for people who re-interpret Freud.
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Neo-Freudians
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Post-Freudian psychoanalysis often focuses on the discrepancies between the ideas of people we have in our minds and the actual people. This is called ...
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object relations theory
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Libido really means a sexual drive, but Dr. Saiger has made it clear that if he asks for the definition of libido, the answer is ...
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the drive towards the creation, nurturing, and enhancement of life.
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She wrote the book on defense mechanisms.
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Anna Freud
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List three ways that neo-Freudian theorists veer differ from Freud.
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1) Emphasize sex less.
2) Focus more on conscious (memory, learning, thinking) than unconscious (psychic conflict, sexuality).
3) Focus more on interpersonal relations in the present, not just in early childhood.
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The modern school of psychoanalytic thought that focuses on how the ego mediates between the id and the superego is called ...
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ego psychology
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The terms "inferiority complex" and "lifestyle" are associated with what psychologist?
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Adler
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The main way that Adler deviated from Freud was in his shifting the focus away from sexuality and onto ...
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"social interest," the desire for positive relationships with others.
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Adler's idea that people live their adult lives in ways that make up for their weakest aspect in childhood.
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organ inferiority
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Adler's idea that people strive for power in adulthood because as children they lacked power ...
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masculine protest (term is used for women, as well)
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The way you live your life as an adult (related to Adler's thought) ...
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lifestyle
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Jung was way different from Freud in that he was into ...
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spiritual and mystical ideas, while Freud was an avowed atheist.
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Jung's term for the inner rhythm of the world ...
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synchronicity
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Jung's term for inborn unconscious ideas shared by all humans ...
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collective unconscious
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The most fundamental images in the collective subconscious discussed by Jung are called ...
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archetypes
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Jung's term for the mask we wear in public ...
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persona
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Man's idealized image of woman is called ________, and woman's idealized image of man is called ________. These have to do with a man's "feminine side."
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anima, animus
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Name Jung's 4 basic ways of thinking.
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rational thinking, feeling (like an artist), sensing, and intuiting (mnemonic is FRIS, as in "Jung had FRIS-y hair)
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MBTI stands for __________ and measures a person's ___________.
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, way of thinking
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________ downplayed Freud's idea of penis envy, the notion that women have a desire to be men.
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Karen Horney
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According to Horney, people try to avoid the fears of being alone and helpless that are felt in childhood. Trying to avoid these feelings can lead to ___________, which are things people "want" but are neither realistic nor truly desirable.
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neurotic needs
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When I say "psychosocial," you say ...
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Erikson!
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Erikson pointed out that NOT all conflicts are _________.
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unconcious
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List Erickson's stages, or developmental tasks (you may very well be asked to list some of them).
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Basic trust or basic mistrust, autonomy or shame/doubt, initiative or guilt, industry or inferiority, identity or identity-confusion, intimacy or isolation, generativity or stagnation, integrity or despair
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Two important names in object relations theory are ...
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Klein and Winnicott
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List four propositions of object relations theory.
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1) Every relationship is both satisfying and frustrating.
2)You cannot satisfy someone without frustrating them sometimes.
3)There's a big difference between loving what someone can do for you and loving them themselves.
4)We are somewhat disturbed by these contradictions in our relationships.
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Communication through play is associated with whom?
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Melanie Klein
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The kid wants to destroy the bad part of something because he fears being destroyed by it. It's weird and it's called ...
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paranoid position
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The kid wants to protect the good part because he fears losing it - AKA ...
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depressive position
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Winnicott's niffle was a ...
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transitional object
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Sorta like Jung's idea of the persona, this is what Winnicott called the facade we put up to protect ourselves.
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What is "false self?" (If you did not put this in the form of a question you got it wrong.)
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Drew Westen's 6 criteria for what is considered psychoanalytic ...
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the conflict of simultaneous mental processes, unconscious mental processes, unconscious compromises among processes, self-defensive and self-deceptive processes, impact of past experiences on present, impact of sexual or aggressive drives
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Experimental evidence to pieces of Freudian theory includes ....
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"not seeing" dirty words that are flashed really quickly, parallel distributed processing model, therapeutic value of catharsis
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When I say Bowlby, you say ...
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Attachment theory!
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List the types of babies and behaviors in the Strange Situation experiment, and list the types of adults who correspond to them.
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See book. Sorry - it's a lot.
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Drew Westen concluded that five propositions of psycho-analysis have been well-established, v'eilu hein:
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(1)lots of mental life is unconscious and that explains some weird behaviors people have (2)the mind can be at conflict with itself (3) childhood experiences impact personality and especially relationship style (4) relationships with important people form patterns that tend to repeat (5) development involves moving from an unregulated state to a regulated state in which relationships are more important.
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