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Psych of Personality 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
10/16/2013

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• Principles of measurement: reliability
Definition
- consistency
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• Principles of measurement: Validity
Definition
- measure what is intended
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Freud's Childhood
Definition
Lived in Vienna. Jewish.
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Freud's relationship with parents
Definition
Father was very strict and they didn't get along. Mother adored him and spoiled him. Favored him over his other siblings. Had a sexual attachment to his mother.
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Freud Physiological Energy: Effects on Behavior
Definition
o Thirst and hunger: physiological excitations that actually happens to your body (energy) that drive you to wishing something
o Freud believed you had to turn that energy into a wish
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Freud's life instincts
Definition
Oriented toward survival.
Libido.
Cathexis.
Sexual instinct is most important
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Freud's Death Instincts
Definition
Unconscious wish to die.
Aggressive Drive.
Developed late in life.
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Freud Psychic Energy
Definition
psychic energy is generated by the libido. this energy is released through biological means known as drives. This psychic energy is then used by the three components of personality: the id, the ego, and the superego.
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Freud: Id
Definition
• Resides in unconsciousness
• Reservoir of instincts and libido
• Works on the pleasure principle
• Satisfies needs through primary-process thought- often compared to a child
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Freud: Ego
Definition
• Resides in all 3- usually consciousness.
• A strong ego controls your id
• Rational master of the personality- Follows the rules.
• Works on the reality principle. Doesn’t try to prevent the id, but tries to postpone or delay it through secondary thought
• Satisfies needs through secondary process thought: mature thought. Understanding consequences and being able to wait
• Ego is constantly battling the id
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Freud: Superego
Definition
• Largely unconscious
• Moral side of personality learned by age 5-6
• Conscience: behaviors for which the child has been punished.
• Ego ideal: moral or ideal behaviors
• Overburdening your superego-guilt
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Freud: Ego
Definition
resides in all 3 stages, mainly in the conscious though. Rational side of personality. Reality based. A strong ego controls the Id
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Freud: Id
Definition
unconscious, instincts and libido works on the pleasure principle and needs to be satisfied immediately
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Freud: Superego
Definition
Superego- largely unconscious, moral side of things, not learned until 5 or 6.
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Freud's Anxiety Thoughts
Definition
- only if the ego doesn’t develop
• Objectless fear
• Birth trauma
• Reality anxiety: fear of tangible dangers
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Freud's Neurotic anxiety
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: id vs ego- began in childhood. What will happen if I act out my impulses
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Freud's Moral anxiety
Definition
Id versus superego
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Freud's Reality Anxiety
Definition
Fear of tangible dangers
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Anxiety Defenses- why?
Definition
• Ego must defend against anxiety and does so with defense mechanisms
• Common characteristics: denials or distortions of reality
• Operate unconsciously
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Anxiety Defenses: Repression
Definition
unconscious denial of something that causes anxiety
o Ptsd
o Repressed memories of abuse
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Anxiety Defenses: Denial
Definition
denial of the existence of something which causes anxiety
o Athletes don’t feel pain until later
o Everything will be okay
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Anxiety Defenses: Reaction formation
Definition
expression of the opposite id impulse
o Pushing away impulses
o Eliot spritzer- Mr. Clean against white collar crime using hookers.
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Anxiety Defenses: Projection
Definition
attribute a disturbing impulse to someone else
o Saying your husband wants an affair when you actually do
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Anxiety Defenses: Regression
Definition
retreat to an earlier period of life
o Difficult to document in adults
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Anxiety Defenses: Rationalization
Definition
reinterpreting behavior
o Lost my job but it wasn’t a good job anyway I didn’t like it whatever
o Aka my entire life
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Anxiety Defenses: Displacement
Definition
shifting id impulses to a suitable object
o Humiliated by your boss and you go home and kick the dog
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Anxiety Defenses: Sublimation
Definition
displacing id impulses into socially acceptable behaviors
o Artistic endeavors
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List of Anxiety Defenses:
Definition
Repression, Denial, Reaction Formation, Projection, Regression, Rationalization, Displacement, Sublimation.
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About Psychosexual Stages:
Definition
Each stage defined by an erogenous zone.
Child must resolve the conflict in each stage to move on to the next.
Lack of resolution may lead to fixation.
A portion of libido is invested in the stage.
Frustration or gratification.
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Psychosexual Stage: Oral
Definition
Birth to 1 year old.
Mouth is the primary erogenous zone.
Pleasure derived from sucking.
Id is dominant.
Oral incorporative: Excessive concern with oral activities like eating drinking.
Oral aggressive: Excessive pessimism hostility and aggressiveness.
Stage concludes with weaning.
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Psychosexual Stage: Anal
Definition
1-3 years old.
Anus is the primary erogenous zone.
Toilet training difficulty.
Defecate when and where parents disapprove: Results in hostile behaviors.
Retain Feces: Results in stinginess.
Stage concludes with toilet training
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Psychosexual Stage: Phallic
Definition
4-5 years old.
Genitals are the primary erogenous zone.
Oedipus Complex: Castration anxiety.
Electra Complex: Penis Envy.
Super ego development.
Phallic personality type: Strong narcissism males vs females.
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Psychosexual Stages: Latency Period:
Definition
Period of rest lasting 5-6 years.
Not a true stage.
Sex instinct is dormant.
Sexual expression sublimated into school activities hobbies and sports.
Same sex friendships.
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Psychosexual Stage: Genital
Definition
Adolescence to adulthood.
Final stage of development.
Adolescents conform to societal sanctions about sexual expression.
Committed adult same sex relationships.
Genital personality finds satisfaction in love and work.
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Freud's Oedipus Complex
Definition
ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrates upon a child's desire to sexually possess the parent of the opposite sex
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Freud's Castration Anxiety
Definition
One of Freud's earliest studies. overwhelming fear of damage to, or loss of, the penis. theory is that a child has a fear of damage being done to their genitalia by the parent of the same sex (i.e. a son being afraid of his father) as punishment for sexual feelings toward the parent of the opposite sex (i.e. a son toward his mother).
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Freud's Penis Envy
Definition
"defining moment" reaction of a girl during her psychosexual development to the realization that she does not have a penis. the parallel reaction in boys to the realization that women do not have a penis being castration anxiety
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Jung vs Freud basic:
Definition
Jung: people are shaped by the past AND future. Expanded on idea of libido. Placed more emphasis on the unconscious
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Jung's Childhood
Definition
Born in switzerland. Childhood was lonely. Father was weak and powerless. Mother was emotionally unstable and he viewed her as two different people. Father was fearful that Jung would grow up to be as weak as he was.
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Freud and Jung's Relationship
Definition
• Became freud’s disciples and then severed the relationship in 1913.
• Jung's Neurotic episode at 38, Freud's at 42.
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Jung on Libido
Definition
Diffuse and general life energy.
Energy that fuels the work of the personality.
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Jung: Psyche
Definition
Psyche: Jung’s term for personality
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Jung: Functioning of Psychic energy principles
Definition
opposites, equivalence, entropy
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Jung's principle of opposites
Definition
Opposing processes. Jung’s idea that conflict between opposing processes or tendencies is necessary to generate psychic energy.
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Jung's principle of equivalence
Definition
Energy is shifted not lost. The continuing redistribution of energy within a personality; if the energy expended on certain conditions or activities weakens or disappears, that energy is transferred elsewhere in the personality.
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Jung's principle of entropy
Definition
Balance or equilibrium. A tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality
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Jung on Ego:
Definition
Center of consciousness, made up of extroversion and introversion. Two attitudes and four functions making up 8 personality types. Personal unconscious: complexes, themes, archetypes.
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Psychological Types: (list)
Definition
Extraverted Thinking, Extraverted feeling, Extraverted sensing, Extraverted intuiting. Introverted thinking, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, introverted intuiting.
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Psychological Type-Extraverted thinking (ET)
Definition
Logical, objective
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Psychological Type-Extraverted feeling (EF)
Definition
Emotional, sensitive
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Psychological Type-Extraverted sensing (ES)
Definition
Outgoing, adaptable
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Psychological Type- Extraverted Intuiting (EI)
Definition
Creative
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Psychological Type-Introverted thinking (IT)
Definition
Interested in ideas
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Psychological Type-Introverted feeling (EF)
Definition
Reserved, deep
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Psychological Type-Introverted sensing (IS)
Definition
Outwardly detached
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Psychological Type-Introverted intuiting (II)
Definition
Unconscious focused
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Jung's Personal Unconscious
Definition
Material that was once conscious. Like Freud’s preconscious
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Jung's Complexes
Definition
A core organized around a common theme.
May be conscious or unconscious.
May be helpful or harmful.

To Jung, a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status.
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Jung's Collective Unconscious
Definition
Collective Unconscious: Accumulation of inherited experiences, deepest level of the psyche.
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Jung and Freud's breakdown/neurosis
Definition
ung’s sit- uation offers a remarkable parallel. Jung overcame his disturbance by confronting his unconscious through the exploration of his dreams and fantasies. Although Jung’s self- analysis was less systematic than Freud’s, his approach was similar. Freud had suffered a neurotic episode at approximately the same age and resolved it by analyzing his dreams, which formed a basis for his personality theory.
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Jung's irrational functions
Definition
Sensing and intuiting
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Jung's Rational functions
Definition
Feeling and thinking
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Archetypes
Definition
The ancient experiences contained in the collective unconscious are manifested by recurring themes or patterns Jung called archetypes. He also used the term primordial images.
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Jung's Persona Archetype
Definition
The persona archetype is a mask, a public face we wear to present ourselves as some- one different from who we really are. The persona is necessary, Jung believed, be- cause we are forced to play many roles in life in order to succeed. it can also be harmful. We may come to believe the persona reflects our true nature.
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Jung's Anima Archetype
Definition
On the psychological level, each sex manifests characteristics, temperaments, and attitudes of the other sex by virtue of centuries of living together. The psyche of the woman contains masculine as- pects (the animus archetype), and the psyche of the man contains feminine aspects (the anima archetype).
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Jung's Shadow Archetype
Definition
contains the basic, primitive animal instincts and there- fore has the deepest roots of all the archetypes. Behaviors that society considers evil and immoral reside in the shadow, and this dark side of human nature must be tamed if people are to live in harmony. Not only is the shadow the source of evil, it is also the source of vitality, spontaneity, creativity, and emotion. Therefore, if the shadow is to- tally suppressed, the psyche will be dull and lifeless.
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Jung's Self Archetype
Definition
represents the unity, integration, and harmony of the total personality. To Jung, the striving toward that wholeness is the ultimate goal of life. This archetype involves bringing together and balancing all parts of the personality.
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Jung's development of personality stages
Definition
childhood, puberty to young adult, middle age, individuation
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Jung: Childhood stage
Definition
Ego development begins when the child distinguishes between self and others.
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Jung: puberty to young adult stage
Definition
Adolescents must adapt to the growing demands of reality. The focus is external, on education, career, and family. The conscious is dominant.
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Jung: Middle age stage
Definition
A period of transition when the focus of the personality shifts from external to internal in an attempt to balance the unconscious with the conscious.
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Jung: Individuation
Definition
A condition of psychological health resulting from the integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of the personality.
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F vs J: Levels of Personality
Definition
F: Conscious- awareness. Unconscious- major drive of all behavior. Preconscious- storehouses all memory
J: 2 levels: personal- similar to unconscious. Collective- inherited experience.
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F vs J: Role of Sex
Definition
F: Sex is the driving force of personality. Motivates-controls
J: Played a minimum role
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F vs J: Libido
Definition
F: Life instinct. Behavior (driven by). Pleasure sexual. Survival. Death -> Aggressive towards others.
J: Broadened -> general life energy- spiritual. Fuels work
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F vs. J: Ego
Definition
F: resides in all 3 stages, mainly in the conscious though. Rational side of personality. Reality based. A strong ego controls the Id. Id: unconscious, instincts and libido works on the pleasure principle and needs to be satisfied immediately. Superego- largely unconscious, moral side of things, not learned until 5 or 6.
J: Center of consciousness, made up of extroversion and introversion. Two attitudes and four functions making up 8 personality types. Personal unconscious: complexes, themes, archetypes.
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