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who devised the first theory of personality   Sigmund Freud  
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refers to important and relatively stable aspects of behavior   personality  
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is an unproved speculation about reality   theory  
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a term or principle that is created (or adopted) by a theorist   construct  
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· Offers guidelines that will serve us in the absence of more precise information   theory  
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Theory of personality   · An “educated guess” about important aspects of human behavior, which may be based on clinical observation or empirical research (or both)  
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found the first psychological laboratory in 1879.   Wundt  
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four criterian that a tehory of personality shuold satisfy:   description, explanation, prediction, and control  
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measured things like the speed of the nerve impulses, and searching for specific locations of the brain that controlled various organic functions   Wundt Psychology  
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E. Brucke   · Freud’s mentor. Followed Helmholtz creed.  
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freud named his theory   psychoanalysis  
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freud believes that human beings are motivated by powerful innate forces called   instincts  
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the activated insitic produces a psychology state of increased tension or arousal known as   drive  
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the drive is what kind of experience   unpleasant, such as hunger or thirst  
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the goal of all behaviro is to   obtain pleasure and avoid unpleasure  
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Drive reduction   restores the body to a previous state of equilibrium where no needs are active, and is primary way of achieving pleasure  
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Eros   the ancient greek god of love, is synomyn for the sexual instict.  
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Destructive instinct   all human beings driven by a death instinct  
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External and internal conflict must be channeled to socially acceptable rules. This is called   Sublmation  
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Destructive and sadistic impluses may be sublimated by becoming a football player.   sublimation  
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· Mental activity involves constant expenditures of   psychic energy  
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· Libido attaches itself to mental representations of objects that will satisfy instinctual needs, a process known as   cathexis  
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Saying wrong words, self-inflicted injuries, Freudian slips of the tongue, dreams all have underlying reasons, which are usually unconscious   parapraxes  
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Repression   motivated forgetting  
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Freud believes that most of personality and mental activity is _______and cannot be called to mind even with great effort.   unconscious  
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information that is not conscious at a given moment, but which can readily become so, is described as   preconscious  
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Topographical model   the structure of personality in terms of unconscious, preconscious, conscious  
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teh act of relegating material to the unconscious is   repression  
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Personality has three contructs   Id, ego, and superego  
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Only component that is present at birth   Id  
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what construct follows the pleasure principle   ID  
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What construct is known as the primary process   ID  
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what is the primary process   permits opposites to coexist side by side, represents ideas by parts that stand for the whole, and condenses related conepts into a single entity. No sense of time and is not effected by experience.  
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this construct is known as I, and develops around the age of 6-8months   EGO  
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Suspends the pleasure principle in place of the reality principle   ego  
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Strangulated affect   the cutting off of powerful emotion  
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A signal   when we become aware of a conflict  
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Realistic anxiety   is caused by danger in the environment, such as ominous looking individual coming your way on a deserted street.  
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Neurotic anxiety-   concerns the harm that will result from yielding to a powerful and dangerous id impulse  
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Moral anxiety   is caused by acts or wishes that violate one’s standards of right and wrong and includes feelings of shame and guilt.  
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Repression expends psychic energy in order to prevent a dangerous id impulse from surfacing   anticathexis opposes the ID  
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you repress your anger and believe that other people are angry at you   projection  
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o The transferring behaviors or emotions, often unconsciously, from one object to another that is less threatening; a defense mechanism   displacement  
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observes and sits above the rest, partly conscious and unconscious   superego  
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develops at the age of 3 or 5   superego  
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When forced with conflict the ego has three options or when a drive arises   satisfy the drive, re-channel the drive (displacement), defend against it  
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