Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Theories of Personality
Freud
59
Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/10/2016

Additional Psychology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
psychoanalytic
Definition
influenced by unconsciousness and early experience is important for personality
Term
convrsion hysteria
Definition
psychological conflicts expressed thru physical symptoms
Term
psychosis
Definition
loosing touch with reality
Term
dream
Definition
road  to unconscious mind
Term
energy hypothesis
Definition
energy wasted with conflict and leaves less energy for reality
Term
anxiety
Definition
ego doesn't adapt to society and maintains a personality
Term
neurotic anxiety
Definition
irrational thought
Term
moral anxiety
Definition
not living up to our own expectations
Term
reality anxiety
Definition
it is possible to be hurt in the real world with this conflict
Term
Repression
Definition
keeps threating material away in unconscious
Term
denial
Definition
no ackowledging painful aspects of reality
Term
reaction formation
Definition

ego unconsciously switches to the opposite behavior

 



ex: mad at firend, becomes nice to her 

Term
projection
Definition

put threatening impulses upon others 



you're rude, but you make everyone seem rude

Term
displacement
Definition

shifting impulses towards a less threatening person



authority figure yells, cant fight them, but i can fight my dog

Term
rationalization
Definition

justifying unconscious reasons for one's actions

 

ex: steal from rich cause they won't notice (i.e. robin hood)

Term
identification
Definition

person models after another



ex: joins sports team for rep since low selp esteem

Term
isolation
Definition

conflict material provides lack of emotion



ex: rape victims recalls what happens but is emotionaless

Term
intellectualization
Definition

thinks and avoids feelings



ex: researches it instead of using emotions

Term
sublimation
Definition
socially acceptabe activity helps to calm impulses
Term

oral stage

fixation:

timeperiod:

Outcome:

rententive where:

Definition

fixation: weaning on mom's boob

Timeperiod: 0-12 months

outcomes: optomisitc//pessimistic

Term

anal stage

fixation:

timeperiod:

Outcome:

rententive where:

Definition

fixation:anal

timeperiod: 1-3

Outcome: optomisitc// pessimistic

rententive where: anal retentive

Term

phallic stage

fixation:

timeperiod:

Outcome:

rententive where:

Definition

fixation: masturbation

timeperiod: 3-5 years

Outcome: oedipus and electra conflict

rententive where: gential zone

Term

latency

fixation:

timeperiod:

Outcome:

rententive where:

Definition
nothing much for school as a kid
Term
genital stage
Definition

fixation:

timeperiod: onwards

(puberty and on)

Outcome: ok

rententive where:genitalia

obssesed about vanity and stuff 

Term

anal character

Definition
personality type resultin from fixation at age 1 - 3, characterized by orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy
Term
castration anxiety
Definition
fear that motivates male development at age 3 - 5
Term
catharsis
Definition
therapeutic effet of a release of emotion when preiously repressed material is made conscious
Term
cathexis
Definition
investment of psychic energy in an object
Term
condensation
Definition
combining of two or more images; charateristic of primary processes
Term
conscious
Definition
aware; cognizant, mental processes in which a person is aware
Term
countertransference
Definition

the analyst's reaction to the patient, as distored by unresolved conflicts

 

ex; taking it out on the patient

Term
defense mechanisms
Definition
ego strategies for coping with unconscious conflict
Term
ego
Definition
the most mature structure of personality; mediates intrapsychic conflict and copes with the external world
Term
Eros
Definition
the life instict
Term
fixation
Definition
the failure to develop normally through a particular development stage
Term
free association
Definition
psychoanalytic technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind, permitting unconsciou connections to be discovered
Term
freudian slip
Definition
a psycholigically motivated error in speech, hearing, behavior, and so forth
Term
genital character
Definition
healthy personality type
Term
id
Definition
the most primitive structure of personality; the source of psychic energy
Term
insight
Definition
conscious recognition of one's motivation and unconscious conflict
Term
intrapsychic conflict
Definition
conflict withtin the personality as between id desires and superego restrictions
Term
latent content
Definition
interpretation; the hidden, unconscious meaning of a dream
Term
manifest content
Definition
recalled story; the surface meaning of a dream
Term
libido
Definition
psychici energy, derived from sexuality
Term
oral character
Definition
personality type resulting from fixation in the first psychosexual stage characterized by optiism, passitivity, and dependency
Term
parapraxis
Definition
a psychological motivated error, more commonly called a Freudian slip
Term
preconscious
Definition
mental content of which a person is currently unaware but which can readily be made conscious
Term
primary process
Definition
unconscious mental functioning in which the id predominates; characterized by illogical, symbolic thought
Term
projective test
Definition
a test that presents ambiguous stimuli such as inkblots or pictures, so that responses will be determined by the test taker's unconscious
Term
reality principle
Definition
the ego's mode of functioning in which there is appropriate contact with the external world
Term
secondary process
Definition
conscious mental functioning in which the ego predominates; characterized by logical thought
Term
sublimation
Definition
defense mechanism in which impulses are expressed in socially acceptable ways
Term
Thanatos
Definition
the death instict
Term
superego
Definition
sturcutre of personality that is the internal voice of parental and societal restrictions
Term
transference
Definition
in therapy, the patient's displacement on the therapist of feelings based on earlier experiences
Term
unconscious
Definition
mental processes of which a person is unaware
Term
psychosis
Definition
irrationality of the unconscious; lost touch with reality; hallucinations
Term
humor
Definition
alivates anxiety, for we find jokes funny since they are a safe release for unconscious conflicts
Term
projective test examples
Definition

TAT

and The Rorschach test (ink blot)

Supporting users have an ad free experience!