AP Psych Summer Test - Outliers & Textbook

Personally

an individual’s characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Psychodynamic Theories

Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious mind and the importance of childhood experiences

psychoanalysis

Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflict; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

Who is Sigmund Freud?

an Austrian doctor and the founder of psychoanalysis. He changed how people view the human mind by showing that hidden, unconscious thoughts drive much of our daily behavior - one of the most notable psychologists - believed that psychological troubles resulted from men/womens unresolved connections with their expected roles (sexuality)

unconscious

according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to the contemporary psychologists infomration processing of which we are unaware (example:unexplained blindless might be cause by not wanting to see something that causes anxiety)

Free association

In psychoanalysis, a method of explaining the unconscious in which the person does and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

Did freud believe the mind was hidden or not?

hidden (unconscious awareness is like the part of an iceberg that floats above the surface - beneath it is the larger unconscious mind (thoughts/wishes/feelings/memories)

Preconscious area

an area from where we can retrieve them into conscious awareness

Repress

thoughts we forcibly block from our consciousness due to unsettling nature (these thoughts sometimes surface in disguised forms (work we choose, beliefs we hold, daily habits)

Where does personality come from?

conflict between impulse & restraint

Id

a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and agressive drives. The Id oparates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification

Ego

the partly conscious, executive, part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, the superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the ids desire in ways that will realistically bring plreasure rather than pain

Superego

partly conscious part of personality that according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations (how we ought to behave, strives for perfrection, ideals oppose ids)

Psychosexual stages

Ids pleasure seeking energies forcus on distinct pleasure sensitive areas of the body (erogenous zones)

erogenous zones

Oral (sucking, biting chewing), Anal (bowel/bladder elimination), Phallic (genitals), Latency (dominant sexual feelings), Genital (sexual interest)

Opedipus Complex

sexual desires for their mother and jealousy/hatred for dad (feel guilt and fear punishment)

What happens after the Opedipus Complex?

feelings get repressed and superego strengthens