8789063766 | Sigmund Freud | Founder of psychoanalysis | ![]() | 0 |
8789063767 | Psychoanalytic Theory | Behavior is due to unconscious motives and conflicts, Early childhood experiences determine personality | ![]() | 1 |
8789063768 | Unconscious Mind | controls the phenomena of repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits and automatic reactions as well as possibly holding emotional complexes, phobias and desires. | ![]() | 2 |
8789063769 | Id | Ruled by the "Pleasure Principle" and has no values, morality, or logic (animal instincts) | ![]() | 3 |
8789063770 | Ego | Ruled by the "Reality Principle" and balances the id and superego by being organized, rational, and postponing gratification | ![]() | 4 |
8789063771 | SuperEgo | Ruled by the "Morality Principle" and is the opposite of the Id because it is the internal, parental voice with rules and values | ![]() | 5 |
8789063772 | Free Association | patient freely exposes his/her ideas, impressions, etc. | ![]() | 6 |
8789063773 | Freudian Slips | Slips of the tongue that expose the unconscious | ![]() | 7 |
8789063774 | Psychosexual Development | sequential and discontinuous stages with changing erogenous zone and conflict in each stage | ![]() | 8 |
8789063775 | Oral stage | Age: 0-1, Erogenous Zone: Mouth, Fixation: Smoking, Over-eating | ![]() | 9 |
8789063776 | Anal stage | Age: 1-3, Task: Potty Training, Fixation: Anal retentive or Anal Expulsive | ![]() | 10 |
8789063777 | Latency stage | Age: 6 to puberty, Task: develop relationships with same sex peers to strengthen gender identity | ![]() | 11 |
8789063778 | Phallic stage | Age: 3-5, Task: Gender Identity, Fixation: Narcissism, Homosexuality | ![]() | 12 |
8789063779 | Genital stage | Age: Puberty to death, Task: Find a hetero-sexual relationship, Fixation: doesn't occur at this stage but old conflicts will arise | ![]() | 13 |
8789063780 | Penis Envy | Freudian theory that girls become upset and scarred because because they don't have a penis and a penis is a key to being successful. Phallic Stage | ![]() | 14 |
8789063781 | Electra Complex | girls sexually desire dad and hate mom but need to resolve this in order to develop a gender identity | ![]() | 15 |
8789063782 | Oedipus Complex | boys sexually desire mom and hate dad but need to resolve this in order to develop a gender identity | ![]() | 16 |
8789063783 | Defense mechanisms | extreme measures protect the ego from threats; operate unconsciously and deny, falsify, or distinct reality | ![]() | 17 |
8789063784 | Neo-Freudians | Jung, Horney, Adler Believed that Freud put too much emphasis on sex and there needed to be more emphasis on social factors | ![]() | 18 |
8789063785 | Collective unconscious | Carl Jung, A warehouse of "instinctive memories" passed down to each generation and all humans share and is made up of archetypes | ![]() | 19 |
8789063786 | Archetypes | Inherited universal concepts that create the Collective Unconscious | ![]() | 20 |
8789063787 | Basic Anxiety | Karen Horney, anxiety that is created by being born helpless. | ![]() | 21 |
8789063788 | Womb envy | Men are envious of a women's ability to have children and therefore, they compensate with other forms of achievement. | ![]() | 22 |
8789063789 | Inferiority Complex | people who compensate for feelings of inferiority (feeling like they're less than other people, not as good as others, worthless, etc.) by acting ways that make them appear superior. | ![]() | 23 |
8789063790 | Projective Tests | Provide ambiguous stimuli in order to trigger the projection of one's inner dynamics Tests: Rorschach Inkblot Test, & Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Draw a Person test | ![]() | 24 |
8789063791 | Rorschach Inkblot Test | seeks to identify people's inner feelings and conflicts by analyzing their interpretations of 10 inkblots. | ![]() | 25 |
8789063792 | Thematic Apperception Test | people view ambiguous pictures and then make up stories about them. | ![]() | 26 |
8789063793 | Humanistic Psychologists | Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow People develop their personality by trying to reach their full potential | ![]() | 27 |
8789063794 | Self-Concept | A person has who they are, Real Self, and who they want to be, Ideal Self and a successful persoanlity has congruence | ![]() | 28 |
8789063795 | Congruence | A person's Real Self and Ideal Self can merge together Part of Roger's Self-Concept Theory | 29 | |
8789063796 | Incongruence | When a person's Real Self and Ideal self do not match, causing anxiety. | ![]() | 30 |
8789063797 | Unconditional positive regard | Defined: receiving acceptance, value, and love from others without requirements Part of Roger's Self-Concept theory in which he says it is necessary to receive from others in order to develop a healthy personality | ![]() | 31 |
8789063798 | Empathy | People will try to understand one's feelings and mirror it back to them | ![]() | 32 |
8789063799 | Hierarchy of Needs | Psychologist: Abraham Maslow Description: Pyramid | ![]() | 33 |
8789063800 | Trait Theories | focuses on identifying how people typically behave but does NOT explain how personality developed | ![]() | 34 |
8789063801 | Factor analysis | - a statistical procedure that identifies common factors among groups of items, to simplify a long list of items into a small number of dimensions -used with trait theories | ![]() | 35 |
8789063802 | Self-Report Inventories | Description: a questionnaire which is used to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors Strengths: empirically derived Weaknesses: social desirability-people can lie and manipulate the information Tests: MMPI, CPI, 16 PF | ![]() | 36 |
8789063803 | MMPI | Most extensively researched personality inventory. Used to assess mental health professions (police, nurses, doctors, pilots) | ![]() | 37 |
8789063804 | Big Five Trait Theory | traits are stable in adulthood, heritability accounts for 50% of personality and can be used to predict other personal attributes | 38 | |
8789063805 | Openess | characteristics such as imagination and insight, and those high in this trait also tend to have a broad range of interests | ![]() | 39 |
8789063806 | Conscientiousness | include high levels of thoughtfulness, with good impulse control and goal-directed behaviors. | ![]() | 40 |
8789063807 | Extraversion | characterized by excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness and high amounts of emotional expressivenes | ![]() | 41 |
8789063808 | Agreeableness | includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection and other pro-social behaviors. | ![]() | 42 |
8789063809 | Neuroticism | characterized by sadness, moodiness and emotional instability | ![]() | 43 |
8789063810 | Social Cognitive Approach to Personality | Description: Personality is influenced between the interaction of a person's traits (including their thinking) and their social context Strengths: based on empirical evidence Weaknesses: minimizes the importance of one's inner traits, emotions, and unconscious motives Examples: Reciprocal Determinism, Locus of Control Psychologists: Bandura | ![]() | 44 |
8789063811 | Reciprocal determinism | Psychologist: Bandura Defined: Personality is developed by the interaction of behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors. How it works: Everyone has a "self-system" of skills abilities and attitudes Self-Efficacy is what can change the system | ![]() | 45 |
8789063812 | External Locus of Control | The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate | ![]() | 46 |
8789063813 | Internal Locus of Control | The perception that you control your own fate | ![]() | 47 |
8789063814 | Self- efficacy | Defined: the belief in your own ability to deal with different situations and accomplish specific goals It is NOT self esteem which is your general sense of self worth Consequences: people with high self-efficacy are able to succeed because they have an internal locus of control | ![]() | 48 |
8789063815 | Compensation | Defense Mechanism where people try to overcome feelings of inferiority in one area by striving to be superior in another area Major part of Alfred Adler's theory | ![]() | 49 |
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