AP Psych - Personality Vocab Part 1

Freud

founder of psychoanalytic theory of personality

Unconscious

the region of the mind that is beyond awareness, especially impulses and desires not directly known to a person

Psychoanalysis

emphasizes the use of free association, dream interpretation, resistances and transference to uncover unconscious conflicts

Id

the primitive part of personality that remains unconscious, supplies energy, and demands pleasure

Pleasure Principle

a desire for immediate satisfaction of wishes, desires, or needs

Ego

the executive part of personality that directs rational bx

Reality Principle

delaying action or pleasure until it is appropriate

Superego

a judge or censor for thoughts and actions

Ego Ideal

the part of the superego representing ideal bx; a source of pride when its standards are met

Libidio

the force, primarily pleasure oriented, that energizes the personality

Fixation

a lasting conflict develiped as a result of frustration or overindulgence

Oral Stage

the period when infants are preocupied with the mouth as an erogenous zone

Anal Stage

the psychosexual stage corresponding roughly to the period of toilet training

Phallic Stage

the psychosexual stage when a child is preoccupied with the genitals

Oedipus Complex

a boy's sexual attraction to him mother, and feelings of rivalry with his father

Electra Complex

a girl's sexual attraction to her father and feelings of rivalry with her mother

Latency Period

 a period in childhood when psychosexual development is more or less interrupted

Genital Stage

period of full psychosexual development, marked by the attainment of mature adult sexuality 

Jung

neo-Freudian, focuses heavily on the unconscious

Personal Unconscious

a mental storehouse for a single individual's unconscious thoughts

Collective Unconscious

a mental storehouse for unconscious ideas and images shared by all humans

Archetypes

a universal idea, image, or pattern, found in the collective unconscious

Persona

 the "mask" or public self presented to others

Anima

an archetype representing the female principle Animus: an archetype representing the male principle

Extroversion

ego attitude in which energy is mainly directed outward

Introversion

ego attitude in which energy in mainly directed inward

Rational Individuals

one who is characterized by having good sense

Irrational Individuals

one who is characterized by not having good sense