Module 60 AP Psych Unit 7
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| Personality | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting
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| Psychodynamic theories | theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences
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| Psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
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| Unconscious | according to Freud a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoghts wishes feelings and memories (information processing we are unaware of)
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| Free association | in psychoanalysis a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
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| Id | a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that according to Freud strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
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| Ego | the largely conscious “executive“ part of personality that meditates among the demands of the id superego and reality
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| Superego | the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations
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| Psychosexual stages | the childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energizes focus on distinct erogenous zones
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| Oedipus complex | a boy’s sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
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| Identification | the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos
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| Fixation | in psychoanalytic theory a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier stage in which conflicts were unresolved
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| Defense mechanisms | in psychoanalytic theory the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
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| Repression | the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts feelings and memories
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| Regression | retreating to an earlier psychosexual stage where some psychic energy remains fixed (a 16-year-old after being cut goes to his grandma's house)
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| Reaction formation | Switching unacceptable impulse into their opposites (after being cut makes a big deal about how it's not a big deal)
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| Projection | disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others (talks about how his dad is mad at coach after being cut)
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| Rationalization | offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions (says he didn't work that hard but would've made it if he tried)
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| Displacement | shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person (yells at his little brother after not making team)
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| Sublimation | transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives (decides to join cross country where they don't make cuts)
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| Denial | refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities (insists that there was an error on the team list)
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| Collective unconscious | Carl Yung's concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history
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| Inferiority complex | given to us by Alder
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| Archetypes | common images are derived from our species’ universal experiences
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| Projective tests | a personality test that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
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| Thematic Apperception test | a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interest through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
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| Rorschach Inkblot test | the most widely used projective test, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
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| Terror-management theory | a theory of death-related anxiety, explores peoples emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
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