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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM #4
TEST 4 -- Personality Psychodynamic Perspective
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Repression banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. | defense mechanism |
| Regression leads an individual faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage. | defense mechanism |
| Reaction Formation causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites. | defense mechanism |
| Projection leads people to disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. | defense mechanism |
| Rationalization offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions. | defense mechanism |
| Displacement shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, redirecting anger toward a safer outlet. | defense mechanism |
| Denial protects the person from real events that are painful to accept. | defense mechanism |
| is a strategy used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety | defense mechanism |
| Freud asked patients to say whatever came to their minds (__________) in order to tap the unconscious. | free association |
| The mind is like an iceberg. It is mostly hidden, and below the surface lies the unconscious mind. | model of mind |
| develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflicts between our biological impulses and social restraints. | Personality Structure |
| unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, demanding immediate gratification. | id |
| functions as the “executive” and mediates the demands of the id and superego. | ego |
| provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. | superego |
| repression (you act like a child), regression (unacceptable thoughts), reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, denial | defense mechanisms |
| --- | conscious |
| --- | preconscious |
| --- | unconscious |
| schemas that automatically control perceptions and interpretations the right-hemisphere activity that enables the split-brain patient’s left hand to carry out an instruction the patient cannot verbalize parallel processing during vision and thinking | The Modern Unconscious Mind |
| implicit memories emotions that activate instantly without consciousness self-concept and stereotypes that unconsciously influence us | The Modern Unconscious Mind |
| --- | Problems with the Psychoanalytic Perspective |
| are questionnaires designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors assessing several traits at once. | personality Inventories |
| was originally developed to identify emotional disorders. | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) |
| Easy to use Easy to score Minimal bias People not always honest Don’t have an “agree” or “disagree” response style Some aspects of personality may be unconscious | pros and cons MMPI |
| Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion | The Big Five Factors |
| refers to the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate, refers to the perception that we can control our own fate. | external & internal locus of control (personal control) |
| We accept responsibility for good deeds and successes more than for bad deeds and failures. | Self-Serving Bias |
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