Ch.9-Psychoanalytic approaches to personality

psychic energy

to motivate all human activity

-source of energy within each person’s psyc

conscious

-all thoughts, feelings and perceptions that you are presently aware of

Insticts

-strong innate forces that provided all the energy in the psychic system

-self-perservation instincts and sexual instincts which become one the life instict

libido-for life instinct, need satisfying, life-sustaining or pleasure oriented urge

thanatos-death instinct, is any urge to destory, harm or agress aganist others or onself

preconscious

any piece of information that you are not presently thinking about, but could easily be retrived and made conscious

unconsious

which the conscious mind has no awareness

psychic determinism

everything we do, think, say and feel is a expression of the mind-conscious, preconscious or unconscious mind

blindsight

After an injury or stroke that damages the primary vision centre in the brain, a person may lose some or ability to see

deliberation without attention

The notion that, when confronted with a decision, if a person can put it out of their conscious mind for a period of time, then the unconscious mind will be continue to deliberate on it, helping the person to arrive at a sudden and often correct decision some time later

Libido

self-perservation

which part of the mind contains childhood memories which can be easily recalled

the preconscious

Psychoanalytic personality theory

Describes how people cope with their sexual and aggressive instincts within the constraints of a civilized society

id

The part we are born with, and source of all drives and urges

Pleasure princple

The desire for immediate gratification

primary process thinking

Which is thinking without logical rules of conscious thought or an anchor in reality. Examples are dreams and fantasies

wish fufilement

Mental energy is invested in that fantasy, and the urge is temporarily satisfied

conscience

One's sense of morality

ego ideal

Ideal image of self

which part of personality is responsible for secondary process thinking

ego

when does conflict occur between id, ego and superego

when the parts of mind have different goals

objective anxiety

-fear, occurs in response to a real, external threat to the person

neurotic anxiety

Direct conflict between the id and ego. Danger which ego may loose control over an unacceptable desire for id

moral anxiety

caused by conflict between ego and superego

defence mechanisms

Protect the ego, and minimize anxiety and distress

repression

process of preventing unaceptable thoughts, feelings or urges from reaching conscious awareness

denial

Reality of a situation is extremely anxiety provoking, refusing to see facts

fundmental attribution error

When bad events happen to others, people tend to attribute blame to some characteristic of the person, whereas when bad events happen to oneself people have tendency to blame situation

displacement

a threatening or an unacceptable impulse is channelled or redirected from its orginal source to a nonthreatening target

rationalization

Acceptable reasons for outcomes that might otherwise appear socially unacceptable, reduce anxiety by coming up with an explanation

reaction formation

The expression of an unacceptable urge, a person may continually display a flurry of behavior which indicates the opposite of an impulse

projection

that sometimes we see others the traits and desires we find most upsetting in ourselves

false consensus effect

Tendency many people assume that others are similar to them, people share your own traits, preferences, or motivations