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Personality

Long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways

What determines how we interact with the world and others?

Personality

Freud believed how much of the mind was conscious?

10%

What did Freud believe we supressed?

Unacceptable urges an desires

What is id?

Most primitive drives; pleasure, aggression, sexuality

What is the pleasure principle?

Id

What is superego?

Conscience and moral compass

What encompasses pride and guilt?

Superego

What is ego?

Rational, real “elf”

What is the referee of id and superego?

Ego

What did Freud believe anxiety was?

Result of ego not mediating conflict

According to Freud, why did unconscious mind deploy defense mechanisms?

To reduce anxiety, guilt, or comfortable thoughts

Are we aware we use defense mechanisms?

No

What do defense mechanisms do?

Distort or deny reality, reduce short-term stress

Cons of defense mechanisms?

Problems arise if you over-rely on it, blocks healthy coping long term

Repression

pushing distressing thoughts/memories into unconscious

Denial

Refusing to accept reality or facts

Projection

Attributing one’s own “unacceptable” thoughts/feelings onto someone else

Displacement

Redirecting impulses to a safer target

Regression

Reverting to behaviors from an earlier developmental stage

Sublimination

Channeling unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable behaviors

Rationalization

Creating logical excuses to justify unacceptable behavior

Reaction Formation

Behaving in a way opposite to one’s true feelings

What are the focus zones in the psychosexual stages of development?

Erogenous zones

What do the psychosexual stages of development arise from?

Suppression of unconscious sexual and aggressive urges

When does the oral stage occur?

0-1 years

What is the fixation of the oral stage?

Mouth

What is the event of the oral stage?

Weaning from breast/bottle

Unresolved oral stage

Smoking, overeating, nail biting, excessive talking, dependency

When does the anal stage occur?

1-3 years

Fixation of anal stage

Bowl + Bladder control

Event of anal stage

Toilet training

When does phallic stage occur?

3-6 years

Fixation of phallic stage

Genitals

Event of phallic stage

Identification with same-sex parent, oedipus/electra complex

Oedipus Complex

Boys try to dominate mother out of fear of being castrated

Electra Complex

Girls try to dominate father out of envy that he has a penis

When does latency stage occur?

6 to puberty

Fixation of latency stage

Repressed sexual impulse

Event of latency stage

Focus on school, hobbies, friendship, and social development

When does genital stage occur?

Puberty to adulthood

Fixation of genital stage

Genitals

Event of genital stage

Established intimate relationships, balance between love and work

Resolved genital stage

Well adjusted adult

Unresolved genital stage

Conflict arises in relationships

Unresolved anal stage: retentive

Obsessively neat, stubborn

Unresolved anal stage: expulsive

Messy, disorganized, destructive

Unresolved phallic stage

Vanity, recklessness, relationship difficulties, sexual dysfunction

What did Alfred Adder suggest?

Inferiority complex

What is an inferiority complex?

Feelings that you lack worth and do not measure up to others or society

What did Alfred Adder focus personality on?

Social relationships, goals, and self-esteem

What did Adler say our main motivation in life is?

Self superiority

How do people compensate for inferiority?

Developing strengths in other areas

What is overcompensation?

Trying to appear superior, dominant, or controlling to cover up insecurities

Fundamental social tasks

Work, Friendship, Love

What did Adler say therapy was about?

Helping people strengthen their ability to handle social tasks

What is work?

Occupational task

What is friendship?

Social task

What is love?

Intimacy task

Healthy work task

Developing skills, working productively, feeling useful

Struggle of work task

Lack of direction, dissatisfaction with career, feeling unimportant

Healthy friendship task

Building relationships, empathy, trust, ability to give and receive support

Failure friendship tasks

Isolation, loneliness, distrust, difficulty working with others

Healthy