UNIT 1 PSYCHOLOGY

PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY

TERMS

PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE < Exploring the unconscious

DREAM ANALYSIS < Another method to analyze the unconscious mind is through interpreting manifest and latent contents of dreams

UNCONSCIOUS < A reservoir (UNCONSCIOUS) of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Freud asked patients to say whatever comes to their minds (FREE ASSOCIATION) in order to top the unconscious.

OEDIPUS COMPLEX < A BOYS SEXUAL DESIRE for his MOTHER and feeling of jealousy and hatred for the RIVAL father.

ELECTRA COMPLEX <A GIRLS SEXUAL DESIRES> for her FATHER and jealousy towards the RIVAL mother.

DEFENSE MECHANISM < Tactics that REDUCE/ REDIRECT our anxiety by distorting reality.

PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY

• THEORY #2- LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• CONSCIOUS MIND- Things that we are aware of.
• PRECONSCIOUS- Things we can be aware of if we think of them
• UNCONSCIOUS- Deep hidden reason that holds the true “us”. All of our desires and fears

• ID- Exists in our Unconscious (Fully intact from the moment birth
• SUPEREGO- Develops during childhood, around the age of 6
• EGO- Develops during infancy, around the 6th month.

• THEORY #3- DEFENSE MECHANISM

• DISPLACEMENT- Shifts the unacceptable impulses towards a safer outlet.
• IDENTIFICATION
• PROJECTION- Disguise your own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

HUMANISTIC THEORIES

1. Focuses on the conscious as opposed to the unconscious.

ID

1. Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Operated on pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

IDENTIFICATION

1. Children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos.

INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL

1. The perception that one controls one’s own fate.

MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY (MMPI)

1. A PERSONALITY TEST
2. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, and now used for many other screening purposes.

PERSONALITY

1. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

PROJECTION

1. Defense mechanism- People disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

Example

• “The thief thinks everyone else is a thief.”

PROJECTIVE TEST

1. A personality Test .
2. Provides ambiguous stimuli designed to triggers projection of others inner dynamics.

PSYCHOANALYSIS

1. Attributes thoughts and actions to the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

PSYCHODYNAMIC STAGES

1. The perspective of psychological science that deals with how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflict.

PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES

1. The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genitals) during which, according to Freud, the Id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zone.