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psychology exam1
conflicts of origin
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/21/2011

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Denial
Definition
failure to acknowledge some aspect of external reality
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Repression
Definition
threatening thoughts excluded
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Reaction Formation
Definition
Behavior, thoughts, or feelings opposite to ones actual thoughts or feelings
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Displacement
Definition
Transferring a feeling about one object onto another
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Projection
Definition
Attributing to another one’s own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses
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Rationalization
Definition
Explaining away threatening feelings or thoughts with reassuring, self-serving and false explanations
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Sublimation
Definition
Channeling potentially maladaptive impulses into socially acceptable behavior
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Regression
Definition
A return of the self to previous places in its development
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Introjection
Definition
Identifying so deeply with an object that it becomes part of the self
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Identification
Definition
Defending against inferiority by modeling the self upon another
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Intellectualization
Definition
A “flight” into reason
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Ritual and undoing
Definition
A person tries to undo an unacceptable or threatening thought or behavior with actions or ritualistic behavior
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Transference
Definition
Unconsciously projecting feelings from relationships with early caregivers into therapist and others
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Eros
Definition
instinct of life and love
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Eros
Definition
instinct of life and love
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Oral stage
Definition
Infant nursing lacks supportive environment
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anal stage
Definition
“If toilet training is imposed on the child, then the issue of control may dominate as an adult.”
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Phallic Stage
Definition
Oedipal complex= boy becomes jealous of dad and wants to compete for special position with mother; Electra complex= girls attraction to her father
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