712460944 | Frued | founder of psychoanalytic theory of personality | |
712460945 | Unconscious | the region of the mind that is beyond awareness, especially impulses and desires not directly known to a person | |
712460946 | Psychoanalysis | emphasizes the use of free association, dream interpretation, resistances and transference to uncover unconscious conflicts | |
712460947 | Id | the primitive part of a personality that remains unconscious, supplies energy, and demands pleasure | |
712460948 | Pleasure Principle | a desire for immediate satisfaction of wishes, desires, or needs | |
712460949 | Ego | the executive part of personality that directs rational bx | |
712460950 | reality principle | delaying action or pleasure until it is appropriate | |
712460951 | superego | a judge or censor for thoughts and actions | |
712460952 | ego ideal | the part of the superego representing ideal bx; a source of pride when its standards are met | |
712460953 | libido | the force, primarily pleasure oriented, that energizes the personality | |
712460954 | fixation | a lasting conflict developed as a result of frustration or overindulgence | |
712460955 | oral stage | the period when infants are preoccupied with the mouth as an erogenous zone | |
712460956 | anal stage | the psychosexual stage corresponding roughly to the period of toilet training | |
712460957 | phallic stage | the psychosexual stage when a child is preoccupied with the genitals | |
712460958 | oedipus complex | a boy's sexual attraction to his mother, and feelings of rivalry with his father | |
712460959 | electra complex | a girl's sexual attraction to her father and feelings of rivalry with her mother | |
712460960 | latency period | a period in childhood when psychosexual development is more or less interrupted | |
712460961 | genital stage | period of full psychosexual development, market by the attainment of mature adult sexuality | |
712460962 | Jung | neo-Freudian, focuses heavily on the unconscious | |
712460963 | Personal Unconscious | a mental storehouse for a single individual's unconscious thoughts | |
712460964 | Collective unconscious | a mental storehouse for unconscious ideas and images shared by all humans | |
712460965 | Archetypes | a universal idea, image, or pattern, found in the collective unconscious | |
712460966 | Persona | the "mask" or public self presented to others | |
712460967 | Anima | an archetype representing the female principle | |
712460968 | Animus | an archetype representing the male principle | |
712460969 | extroversion | ego attitude in which energy is mainly directed outward | |
712460970 | introversion | ego attitude in which energy in mainly directed inward | |
712460971 | rational individuals | one who is characterized by having good sense | |
712460972 | irrational individuals | one who is characterized by not having good sense |
Personality Vocab 1 Flashcards
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