Final Exam PSY 101 Personality

PSY 101

personality

personality

our characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

psychodynamics theories

descended from freud

unconscious

revisor of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

Free association

a method of exploring the unconscious in which the individual says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

ID

unconscious psychic energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives

Ego

seeks to gratify the id's impulses and realistic ways that will bring long term pleasure

Super ego

our moral compass that forces our ego to consider real or ideal

Oedipus complex

the collection of guilt and fear of punishment from their father due to unconscious sexual desire for their mother and hatred for their father

Identification

identifying with the rival parent to cope with threatening feelings

conflicts unresolved

during the psychosexual stages surface as maladaptive behavior causing an individual to fixate in a stage

Oral (0-18 months)

pleasure centers around the mouth- sucking, biting, chewing

Anal (18-36 months)

pleasure focuses on bowel and badder elimination, coping with demands for control

Phallic (3-6 years)

pleasure zones in the genitals; coping with incesturous sexual feelings

Latency (6- puberty)

a phase of dormant sexual feelings

Genital (puberty-onwards)

maturation of sexual interests

defense mechanisms

the egos protective method of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

repression

banishes from conciseness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

regression

retreating to a more infantile state

reaction formation

switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites

projection

disguising ones own threatening impulses by attributing them onto others

rationalization

self justifying explanations in place if the real more threatening unconscious reasons for ones actions

displacement

shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward more acceptable or less threatening object or person

denial

refusing to believe or perceive painful realities