Personality Theories: Exam 2

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Felt Minus

Inferior feeling of ourselves, motivate striving.

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Felt Plus

Overcoming inferior feeling of ourselves (Striving)

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Organ Inferiority

Compensation for weakness leads to strength, physical inferiority.

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Aggressive drive

movement itself from felt minus to felt plus- may be experienced as fighting or competition.

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Masculine protest

men and women seek the privilege associated with the male gender role, challenges gender role norms.

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superiority striving

People strive to achieve their personal best. Being a better person, overcoming personal challenges, perfection striving.

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Inferiority complex

Stagnation of growth in which difficulties seems too immense to be overcome (person becomes stuck)

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Superiority complex

Neurotic belief that one is better than others. Arrogance.

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Fictional finalism

A person’s image of the goal of his/her striving, Can;t understand personality without this.

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Style of life (SOL)

A person’s consistent way of striving and carrying out fictional finalism.

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Pampered child

Set up a person for unrealistic expectations

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The neglected child

Set a person up to expect everyone to neglect them

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Family constellation

entire makeup of the family.

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Firstborn child

experiences dethronement when the next child is born, Type A, problem child.

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Second/middle child

try to match older child’s exploits, divided attention, highest achievers.

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Youngest child

Risks being pampered, achieve in everything, spoiled child can never be independent.

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Only child

Risks developing a mother complex, similar to firstborn.

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Selective Inattention

Children ignore/avoid anxiety

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Bad-me

Negative, things we don’t like about ourselves

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Good-me

Parts we share with others

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Not-me

Parts that are anxiety provoking, we can’t deal with them + pushed into deep unconscious

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Ambivalence

Maturity, able to see that people aren’t all good or all bad, if none can affect relationships (immature)

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Depressive position

someone in their lives falls off their pedestal, able to deal (people aren’t all or nothing)

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Paranoid-Schizoid Position

Stuck in seeing people in 2D, all or nothing.

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Subjective omnipotence

power to get needs met, children transition

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Objective reality

I’m not as powerful, people help me but have their own lives.

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Transitional objects

Mom stand in (blankets, stuffed animals, etc)

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Strange Situation Test

Secure v.s. Insecure attachment test

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Sex

Physical or biological characteristics

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Gender

Characteristics culturally assigned to sex (masculine/feminine)

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Womb envy

Envy bio males have due to the fact that women can give birth, power is used to mask insecurity.

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Basic anxiety

Feeling lonely and helpless in a hostile world

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Basic Hostility

anger over parental neglect

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Moving toward

need affection + approval, manipulative demands, “poor me”, “if you love me you will not hurt me” But enables us to give and receive social support

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Moving against

Needs control, dominance + power, self worth derived from success, “If i have power i shall not be hurt”, competition

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Moving away from people

attitude of “if I don’t care about anything” don’t develop goals, stems from hurt. counterdependent, never ask for help.

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Princess Marie Bonaparte

Former patient of Freud, very avid believer in Freud’s ideas

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Acceptives (women)

Have substituted penis = children

Believed in only vaginal sex

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Renouncers (women)

Give up competition with men

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Claimers (women)

Deny reality and cling to masculine aspects of self, become lesbians

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Central paradox of connection/disconnection

Repeated disconnection makes us afraid to form connections

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Central Relational paradox

Holding back is the way to connect again

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Mother & daughter

Daughter wants to recreate motherly relationship by becoming a mother herself.

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