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What was Sigmund Freud? What was he famous for? |
He was a psychiatrist (medical doctor and he revolutionized psychology. Therapy is because of Freud. |
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What were the stigmas around Freud? |
He was a pervert, sex addict, freak, etc. |
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During the victoria era... |
You couldn't talk about sex or anything related to it. It was rude and disrespectful. |
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Personality is formed by... |
Needs, strivings, and desires that are outside of awareness |
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Structures of Personality: ID |
Drives from birth. Selfish immediate gratification. Kind of like the natural man. |
Wanting a peice of candy. |
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Structures of Personality: Super Ego |
Rules, Thoughts, Values, etc. Nurture. Don't wanna be punished or abandoned |
Knowing it's wrong to steal candy. |
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Structures of Personality: Ego |
Operates under the reality principle. The mediator for the super ego and ID. |
Asking mom for a peice so hopefully she'll say yes and it's also not stealing. |
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Erogenous Zone |
Body part couponing to the stage. Example: Oral stage has to do with the mouth, etc. |
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Oral Stage |
0-18 months Puts everything in mouth |
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Oral stage fixation |
Chew nails, Bite pencils, etc. |
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Anal Stage |
2-3 years, potty training. |
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Anal stage fixation |
Anal retentive - Clean freak Anal expulsive - messy slobs |
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Phallic Stage |
3-6 years, wanting to know everything, why does mom not have a penis. |
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The Oedipus complex |
The child wants his/her father or mother. |
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What is Castration anxiety? What is the name for girls? |
Anxiety concerning why sister doesn't have a penis and why dad is taking mom away. Opposite is called Electra complex. |
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Phallic Stage fixation |
Chronic masturbation and sexual deviance |
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Latency stage - no erogenous zone |
Focus is more about developing intellect, social skills, creativity, etc. 5-13 years. |
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Latency stage fixations |
workaholic or never works |
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Genital stage - no erogenous zone |
Everything about who you are comes together. What kind of fixations do you have? prepared to love, forgive, etc. 13 until death. |
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Criticisms for freud |
Not scientific, no real solid evidence, no predictive value, and sexuality part was too strong. |
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Repression |
"Motivated forgetting". This is when you have a painful memory. |
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Rationalization |
Biggest impediments to the repentance process. won't admit that you did something wrong. |
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Reaction formation |
opposite feelings and behavior. Ex: Loving someone so much that it is seen as hate. Or hating someone, but smiling and being fake to their face. |
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Displacement |
Less threading object. Taking your negative feelings on something less threatening. Ex: screaming in your pillow. |
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Identification |
Take on characteristics. Indentifying with someone who oppressed you. Stockholm Syndrome is feeling empathy for that person who abuses you. |
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Sublimation |
Unacceptable urges to acceptable activities. Ex: Love watching people get hurt, so i watch football. |
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Intelligence |
how you perceive yourself and your surroundings, making desicions, coping, etc. |
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Stable Trait |
Makes you behave consistently in all situations. |
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Self reports |
Ask quesitons and answer. Ex: "Are you introverted or extroverted?" Problems: Lying, promoting themselves, don't really know ourselves. |
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MMPI-2-RF |
Personality inventory. Most scientifically established personality scale. Designed to capture who people really are. |
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Thematic apperception test |
Show picture and ask client to tell story. It will tell the therapist or whoever is administering the test who you are and what you are going through. IMPORTANT: Therapists will project their own biases onto their clients. |
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Social congnitive approach |
Theorists say behavior is inconsistent from situation to situation. |
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What's the difference between behavior theorists and social cognitive theorists? |
Behavior theorists: Believe behavior is consistent Social congnitive theorists: Believe that behavior is based on circumstances. |
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How does the Reticular formation influence introverts and extroverts? |
It's hard to stimulate for extroverts. They seek social situations to stimulate that part of the brain. Easier to stimulate for introverts. |
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Personality is |
Genetic. No hard evidence of environmental influences. |
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Locus of control |
Proactive - Assertive. don't wait to be told. Reactive - opposite. need to be told. |
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Internal locus |
Proactive. I oversee my life. no one can make me feel a certain way. |
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External locus of control |
Reactive. i can't change things, its fate. out of control. others make me angry. |
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Personality theorists argue that... |
Personality makes people behave consistently with their reactions to different stimuli. |
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Outcome expectancies |
Motivated to do behaviors is you believe it will get you where you want to be. |
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Self serving bias |
Centered on success and failure. When we succeed, it is us who accomplished it. Internal. When we fail, it wasn't our fault, blame, etc. |
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Humanistic psychology |
People are fundamentally good. They have potential. |
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Abraham Maslow's Hierchy of needs |
You need certain things before you can feel or experience higher things. Example: You need food and water before you find a partner. |
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Self actualization |
Motivated to be the best we can. Persons peak. |
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Carl rodger's implications |
Contributed to humanistic psych. Said therapists should support and help them unconditionally. Help build trust. Person centered therapy. |
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Existential psychology |
Life is not about happiness. Life is suffering. That's how we get things done. Victor Frankl: Fixated and distraught when we are not happy. |
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How do you characterize differences in personality? |
Reliability and validity. |
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How many traits are there? |
18,000. But we have narrowed it down to five. |
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OCEAN Acronym: O |
Openness to experience Score high: Open to new ideas, jobs, cultures, etc. |
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OCEAN acronym: C |
Conscientiousness. Score high: Careful, cautious, detail oriented, etc. |
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OCEAN acronym: E |
Extroversion Score High: Social, center of attention, etc. |
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OCEAN acronym: A |
Agreeableness Score High: Agreed a lot, avoids contention, flexible, etc. |
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OCEAN acronym: N |
Neuroticism Score high: Insecure, paranoid, irritable, on edge, etc. |
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