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Exam 5
personality
an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
who came up with the psychoanalytic perspective?
Freud
what did Freud believe?
that childhood, sexuality, and unconscious motives influenced your personality
what is psychoanalysis?
thoughts and actions due to our unconscious motives and conflicts
what is the first level of awareness?
conscious
what is the second level of awareness?
preconscious
what is the third level of awareness?
unconscious
id
unconscious psychic energy that works off the pleasure principle
superego
internalized ideas and standards for judgement
ego
controls both, very conscious
fixation
pleasure-seeking tendencies stuck at earlier stages
oral stage
(0-18 mos)
pleasure centers of mouth
anal stage
(18-36 mos)
bowel and bladder elimination (control)
phallic stage
(3-6 yrs)
pleasure zone in genitals
latency stage
(6- puberty)
phase pf dormant sexual urges
genital stage
puberty onward
maturation of sexual interests
repression
don’t think about it = it doesn’t exist
reaction formation
switching impulses to opposites
projection
disguising one’s own impulses by attributing them to others
rationalization
self-justifying in place of real actions
displacement
shifting impulses elsewhere
denial
refusing to believe a painful reality
free association
relaxing and saying whatever comes to mind
freudian slip
verbal error due to unconscious interference
rorschach test
presenting ambigious stimuli to unconver hidden personality dynamics
neo-freudian
someone who believes in something of Freud’s, but with slight changes of their own
Alfred Adler
believed that we strive for superiority
inferiority complex
exaggerated feelings of inadequacy
who came up with the inferiority complex?
Alfred Adler did
compensation
overcoming inferiority by developing one’s abilities
Karen Horney
focused on desire, love, and security
Horney was the first psychoanalytical …
feminist
Horney challenged Freud’s …
masculine bias
Carl Jung
believed in the collective unconscious
collective unconscious
s shared, inheirited memory that traces from our ancestors’ history
Jung was among the first…
psychanalysts
