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Psych Quiz 4

personality

QuestionAnswer
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
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