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Mod 31 Ch 10 EUP
Essentials of Understanding Psychology 7th ed mod 31 ch 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Personality? | The pattern of enduring characteristics that produce consistency and individuality in a given person. |
| What are Psychodynamic approaches to personality? | Approaches that assume that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which they have no control. |
| What is the Psychoanalytic theory? | Freud's theory that unconscious forces act as determinants of personality. |
| What is the Unconscious? | A part of the personality that contains the memories, knowledge, beliefs, feelings, urges, drives, and instincts of which the individual is not aware. |
| What is an Id? | The raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives related to hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses. |
| What is an Ego? | The part of the personality that provides a buffer between the id and the outside world. |
| What is an Superego? | According to Freud, the final personality structure to develop; it represents the rights and wrongs of society as handed down by a person's parents, teachers, and other important people. |
| What is the Oral stage? | According to Freud, a stage from birth to age 12 to 18 months, in which an infant's center of pleasure is the mouth. |
| What are Psychosexual stages? | Developmental periods that children pass through during which they encounter conflicts between the demands of society and their own sexual urges. |
| What are Fixations? | Conflicts or concerns that persist beyond the developmental period in which they first occur. |
| What is the Anal stage? | According to Freud, a stage from age 12 to 18 months to 3 years of age, in which a child's pleasure is centeredon the anus. |
| What is the Phallic Stage? | According to Freud, a period beginning around age 3 during which a child's pleasure focuses on the genitals. |
| What is the Oedipal Conflict? | A child's sexual interest in his or her opposite-sex parent, typically resolved through identification with the same-sex parent. |
| What is Identification? | The process of wanting to be like another person as much as possible, imitating that person's behavior and adopting similar beliefs and values. |
| What is the Latency period? | According to Freud, the period between the phallic stage and puberty during which children's sexual concerns are temporarily put aside. |
| What is the Genital stage? | According to Freud, the period from puberty until death, marked by mature sexual behavior (that is, sexual intercourse). |
| What are Defense mechanisms? | In Freudian theory, unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves and others. |
| What is Repression? | The primary defense mechanism in which unacceptable or unpleasant id impulses are pushed back into the unconscious. |
| Who are Neo-Freudian psychoanalysts? | Psychoanalysts who were trained in traditional Freudian theory but who later rejected some of its major points. |
| What is the Collective unconscious? | According to Carl Jung, a common set of ideas, feelings images, and symbols that we inherit from our ancestors, the whole human race, and even nonhuman ancestors from the distant past. |
| What are Archetypes? | According to Jung,universal symbolic representations of a particular person, object, or experience (such as good or evil). |
| What is the Inferiority complex? | According to Alfred Adler, a problem affecting adults who have not been able to overcome the feelings of inferiority that they developed as children, when they were small and limited in their knowledge about the world. |
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