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Psych Quiz 4
personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychodynamic | unconscious motivations that shape personality (Freud) |
| Socrates | Man’s true concern should be for one’s soul, not one’s body Big on self-awareness |
| Aristotle | There is an interaction between the organism and the environment, tabula rasa |
| Hippocrates | "Father of Medicine”, First to propose radical organic theory of personality, Identified four personality types based on bodily humors (moods) |
| Sanguine (blood) | Happy, elevated mood, somewhat hyper, cheerful, motivated |
| Plato | Father of psychodynamic thought, First to propose a conflict theory of personality, He believed in “Three Theories of Soul” |
| Id | Seeks immediate gratification of needs without considering consequences. What a person WANTS to do (devil). Desires, needs, wants. |
| Psychodynamic Theory | BIG motives hidden deep in the unconscious mind |
| Libido | sex drive |
| Ego | Rational, thoughtful, realistic, considers consequences, logical. Tries to balance demands of Id and Superego. What person CAN do (seeks balance) |
| Superego | Conscience, high ideals, morals, values etc. Can cause guilt. What a person SHOULD do (angel). |
| Displacement | The process by which an emotion originally attached to a particular person, object or situation is transferred to something else |
| Conversion | Physical symptom with no demonstrable physiological cause |
| Denial | Behaving as though whatever is causing the fear or anxiety does not exist or is not true. |
| Fantasy | Essentially a daydream in which a wish is fulfilled |
| Identification | Conscious or unconscious incorporation of another’s attributes or characteristics into one’s own personality |
| Projection | A process of turning outward one’s own objectionable desires, attitudes, and motives and attributing them to others. |
| Rationalization | Process by which behaviors or failures, etc, are explained away by excuses or reasons that shed them in more favorable light |
| Reaction Formation | A process in which an unconscious, painful or undesirable character trait or attitude is masked by an excessive and inflexible demonstration of an opposite trait or attitude |
| Regression | Person under great anxiety or stress reverts to responses or behaviors from an earlier, less mature time |
| Repression | A process or act of pushing out of consciousness ideas and feelings that are painful or disturbing |
| Sublimation | Process in which strongly conflicting unconscious impulses are transformed and expressed as socially desirable activities |
| Humanist | Intergrating experiences to gain insight and direction/expressions from within the person |
| Theorist of Psychodynamic | Freud |
| Theorist of Behavioral | Skinner |
| Theorist of Humanistic | Maslow |