module 45 ~ intro to personality and psychodynamic theories

Id

Unconscious energy seeking immediate gratification.

Ego

Mediator balancing id and superego's demands.

Superego

Represents moral conscience and strives for perfection.

Pleasure Principle

Motivation for immediate satisfaction of desires.

Reality Principle

Gratifies id's impulses realistically for long-term pleasure.

Humanistic Theories

Focus on personal growth and self-fulfillment.

Trait Theories

Examine consistent patterns in individual behavior.

Social Cognitive Theory

Studies interaction between traits and social context.

Psychodynamic Theories

View behavior as interaction of conscious and unconscious.

Psychosexual Stages

Stages of childhood development influencing personality.

Oral Stage

Pleasure centers on the mouth (0-18 months).

Anal Stage

Focus on bowel control (18-36 months).

Phallic Stage

Pleasure zone is genitals (3-6 years).

Latency Stage

Dormant sexual feelings (6 years to puberty).

Genital Stage

Maturation of sexual interests (puberty onward).

Defense Mechanisms

Unconscious strategies to reduce anxiety.

Regression

Reverting to earlier psychosexual stage behaviors.

Reaction Formation

Transforming unacceptable impulses into their opposites.

Projection

Attributing one's threatening impulses to others.

Rationalization

Self-justifying explanations for actions.

Displacement

Redirecting impulses to a safer target.

Denial

Refusing to accept painful realities.

Oedipus Complex

Boy's feelings of desire for mother, rivalry with father.

Identification

Incorporating parents' values into one's superego.

Neo-Freudians

Freudians emphasizing conscious mind over unconscious.

Collective Unconscious

Shared inherited memory reservoir proposed by Jung.

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Storytelling based on ambiguous images.

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Interpreting inkblots to reveal feelings.

Terror-Management Theory

Explores responses to reminders of mortality.