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Personality Mid-term
Personality, Freud, Jung
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Psychology
Post-Graduate
10/20/2015

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Theory
Definition
Ideas; a group of assumptions that are logically related (they make sense)
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What is personality
Definition
the pattern of characteristics, feelings, and thoughts that persist overtime and are unique to each individual
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What are the variables that effect personality
Definition
1. Internal (nature) vs. External (nurture)
2. Group Membership
3. Structural Personality
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3 ways to study personality
Definition
1. Case Study - Idographic approach
2. Correlational Studies
3. Experimental Method
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Can interpret Freud's theory on 3 things
Definition
1. Psychodynamic Model
2. Reduction-in-tension Model
3. Medical Model
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Psychodynamic Model
Definition
relationship between needs and motives. Emphasis on behavior
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Reduction-in-tension Model
Definition
Reduction of tension to achieve balance. emotional/psychological balance of equilibrium.
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Medical Model
Definition
Cause and effect, no system without a cause
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Infantile Sexuality
Definition
Any activity that brings pleasure to an organism. Separate from the genitals.
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Psychic Determination
Definition
Nothing happens by chance. No random events.
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Features of Unconscious Motivation (3)
Definition
1. motives behind actions
2. the person performing the action does not know why they are doing it.
3. the person is sometimes compelled to act in a certain way; even if it seems irrational.
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Conscous
Definition
awareness & attention that is directed toward a source
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Preconscious
Definition
attention is withdrawn and redirected
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Unconscious
Definition
Storage space, you bury them alive! They bubble up (tongue slips, dreams, artwork)
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Structure of Personality
Definition
Instinctive behavior/innate drives. Includes id, ego, and superego
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Ego
Definition
Concept of self, the way you relate to others
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superego & 3 functions
Definition
the moral aspect of personality
1. Inhibit the impulses (sex drive/aggression)
2. Set moral and ethical issues
3. always strive for perfection
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Reflex Actions
Definition
Innate actions, sneezing, blinking
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Primary Process
Definition
mood of thinking seen in children and creative processes. Primitive process. seen in artwork, dreaming, and imagery.
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Psychic Energy
Definition
Relates to id. balance of psychological and physical.
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2 Thermodynamic Laws
Definition
1. Law of Energy Conservation
2. Principle of Equilibrium
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Law of Energy Conservation
Definition
Each of us has energy we invest in people and objects.
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Principle of equilibrium
Definition
Entropy - Any energy system has to always seek equilibrium or balance. The more important the object the more energy invested in it.
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Instincts lead to: (4 things)
Definition
1. Source - bodily excitation
2. Aim - removal of excitation (fill the need)
3. Object - is the behavior leading to obtain the aim
4. Impetus - the forcefulness (how strong is the need)
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2 Different Instincts
Definition
1. Life - Eros; to keep alive, hunger, thrist, sex.
2. Death - thanatos; aggression
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Libido
Definition
psychic energy relating to id; sex and aggression
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Secondary Process
Definition
Ego - emerges as ego develops; rational behavior
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3 types of anxiety
Definition
1. Reality Anxiety
2. Moral Anxiety
3. Neurotic Anxiety
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Reality Anxiety
Definition
Its real (anxious for test)
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Moral Anxiety
Definition
The relationships between impulse and control
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Neurotic Anxiety
Definition
Something is going to happen and the Defense Mechanisms do not work properly
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Characteristics of Defense Mechanisms (5)
Definition
1. Protective devices
2. They Reduce Energy
3. Mostly unconscious
4. Type of resistance
5. They keep the psyche in equilibrium
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Types of Defense Mechanisms
Definition
1. Regression
2. Projection
3. Fixation
4. Repression
5. Reaction Formation
6. Rationalization
7. Denial
8. Displacement
9. Sublimation
10. Intellectualization
11. Identification
12. Undoing
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2 Major questions of dreams (Freud)
Definition
1. What are the sources of dreams?
2. What are the elements of dreams?
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Elements of Dreams
Definition
1. Manifest Content
2. Latent Content
3. Dream Work
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Manifest Content
Definition
The dream itself, what you recall, see
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Latent Content
Definition
What is behind the dream; unconscious, motivation, repressed thoughts, etc.
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Dream Work
Definition
The process that links the manifest content to latent content
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What is included in Dream work; how dreams can be distorted
Definition
1. Condensation
2. Symbolism
3. Displacement
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Condensation
Definition
Put more than one element together and see them as one element
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Displacement
Definition
Its content seems to have a different center from its dream thought. an anxiety thought could play minor role in dream, where something not related to anxiety has a large role
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Symbolism (Freud)
Definition
There are personal symbolism eg. Train journey represents death
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3 lines of thought for dreams
Definition
1. Philosophers - basis is peculiar state of mental activity
2. Medical Doctors - scarcely reaches psychical phenomena
3. Popular opinion - future
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3 categories of dreams
Definition
1. Intelligible
2. Bewildering
3. Disconnected, confused, meaningless
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Dramatization
Definition
Make a thought/transform a thought into situations
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Obscure Dreams
Definition
Are disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes
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Jung's Word Association Test
Definition
Whole idea of attitudes and how they effect the way we talk and behave
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Criteria to determine emotionally reactive content to Word Association Test
Definition
1. Reaction Time
2. responding with a meaningless word
3. Responding with more than one word
4. Saying the word said again
5. failing to respond
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Extrovert & Introvert
Definition
They are a way of responding or reacting to things, innate characteristics
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Extrovert
Definition
Acts more on impulse - need to conquer issue immediately by acting
- energy put into other people, objects, events
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Introvert
Definition
Would pause and get a solution from analyzing the situation
- energy put into self (internally)
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2 levels of unconscious
Definition
1. Personal Unconscious
2. Collective Unconscious
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Personal Unconscious
Definition
(Similar to Freud's preconscious)
Thoughts, feelings experienced at conscious level
- complexes come into play here
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Complexes
Definition
Group of clusters of thoughts, ideas, feelings that have some emotional content, psychic energy
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Collective Unconscious
Definition
We have inherit residue from ancestors, because we have same structure of brain bodies, they are predispositioned.
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Archetype
Definition
Universal thoughts, images and ideas that are heritage of human beings
Symbols etc.
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4 Important Archetpyes
Definition
1. Anima
2. Animus
3. Persona
4. Self
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Anima
Definition
Feminine aspect of man - there is an internalize feminine image in every man
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Animus
Definition
Masculine aspect of woman - there is an internalized masculine image in every woman

- a woman is in danger of losing femininity if possess animus
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Persona
Definition
My mask, or role you're playing; changes when the role changes (eg. mother, professor, wife)
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Self
Definition
The center of the personality; where all systems are arranged around. It unites all elements and balances all opposing forces
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Shadow
Definition
Similar to the concept that the id is the devil in you
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3 Principles (Jung)
Definition
1. Equivalence
2. Opposite
3. Entropy
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Equivalence
Definition
The self uniting all elements and balancing all opposing forces
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Opposite
Definition
Masculinity/femininity etc. always the opposite that must come together
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Entorpy
Definition
The tendency to keep the organism in a state of equilibrium
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Individuation process
Definition
Jung: Refers to differentiation & Integration
- all processes are different, but unite together. All systems will blend/integrate together.
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