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Personality Theories
Freud, Jung, & Adler
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anecdotal experiences | One's own life experiences |
| science | method of obtaining knowledge |
| Axis I | clinical disorders |
| Axis II | personality and mental disorders |
| Axis III | general medical conditions |
| Axis IV | psychosocial stressors |
| Axis V | GAF |
| personality | pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior |
| traits | individual, consistent, reliable |
| characteristics | unique qualities of an individual, descriptive aspects |
| theory | set of related assumptions that we use to deduce to formulate testable hypotheses |
| pauper's law of falsify ability | laws are good when they prove what is wrong |
| characteristics of a good theory | must generate research falsifiable allows to organize data guides action internally consistent parsimonious - short & simple as possible |
| Freud: 3 levels of mental life | unconscious preconscious conscious |
| Freud: 2 primary energies | sex aggression |
| Freud: 3 provinces of the mind | id ego superego |
| anxiety | a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns a person of impending danger |
| repression | forcing of threatening feeling into the unconscious |
| what happens to repressed feelings? | 1. just sit there 2. boil up to surface 3. come back up to surface in displaced or disguised forms |
| reaction formation | repressed impulse that comes across in disguise as the opposite of repressed feelings |
| displacement | redirection of repressed urge onto a variety of other objects |
| fixation | tries to protect from having to move from one developmental stage to another |
| regression | stressful event occurs - revert to previous developmental stage |
| projection | seeing in someone else the unwanted repressed impulses that reside in you |
| interjection | underlying anxiety dealt with by taking on positive qualities of another person |
| sublimation | repressed urge to come out in art, music, etc. |
| Freud's techniques | dream analysis, free association |
| Carl Jung, Levels of mental life | personal unconscious collective unconscious |
| archetype | ancient "prototypes" from which copies can be produced - developed out of collective unconscious |
| persona | primary contact with outside world, public face, ego |
| shadow | archetype of darkness and repression id |
| anima & animus | all are psychologically bisexual and all exhibit masculine and feminine qualities |
| greatmother | preexisting concept of mother fertility & nourishment vs. power & destruction |
| wise old man | wisdom & meaning, symbolizes preexisting human knowledge of the mysteries of life |
| hero | can only be represented by someone with a weakness |
| self | expression of inherited tendency to move toward growth, perfection, & completion |
| mandala | wholeness, completeness, represented by a circle |
| introversion | inward turning of psychic energy & orientation of projected self |
| extraversion | outward turning of psychic entergy & orientation of objective |
| sensing | physical stimuli- perceptual consciousness, absolute elementary facts |
| thinking | logical/intellectual activity |
| feeling | process of evaluation an idea or event |
| intuiting | perceptions beyond workings of consciousness |
| Jung: Stages of development | childhood youth middle life old age |
| Jung: techniques | word association test dream analysis |
| Adler's theory | striving for superiority |
| 6 Tenants | 1. same drive, different goals 2. subjective perceptions shape humanity 3. unity & self consistency of personality 4. social interest 5. style of life 6. creative power |
| why do some people create maladjustments? | 1. exaggerated physical deficiencies 2. pampered style of life - no strong social interest 3. neglected style of life - distrust, society is enemy |
| what is the difference between Adler's safeguarding tendencies and Freud's defense mechanisms? | defense mechanism's primary goal is to keep unconscious from becoming conscious, where safeguarding tendencies protect self-esteem to maintain current style of life |
| excuses | most common, first state what they would like to do, followed by excuse that keeps from having to confront reality |
| aggression | depreciation: undervaluing others' achievements accusation: blaming others for failures |
| withdrawal | run away from difficulties so not to have to face them |
| masculine protest | overemphasizing the importance of being manly |
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