Freud's Defense Mechanisms
Which defense mechanism is used when someone is refusing to accept reality?
Denial.
Who's idea was it that attributed personality to unconscious motives and childhood experiences?
Sigmind Freud came up with the psychoanalytic theory.
What is personality?
Personality is the characteristics that define a person's behavior, cognition, and emotions.
What is the Preconscious in our minds?
The preconscious: Things we could be aware of if we wanted to try. It is where memories and knowledge are stored.
What are traits?
Traits are mostly stable behavior patterns, thoughts, and emotions that makeup one's personality.
Which defense mechanism is being used when someone is “pushing” threatening or conflicting events or situations out of conscious memory?
Regression is the defense mechanism that is used.
What is free association?
It is when a person talks freely without censoring thoughts.
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
What is the unconscious in our minds?
The unconscious: Things we are unaware of and can not become aware of. That is where we keep fears, violent motives, selfish needs, traumatic experiences, etc.
What are the 4 basic humors and what needs to be done to restore/maintain proper health?
The 4 basic humors are Yellow bile (quick temper), Blood (warm, cheerful), Phlegm (cool, sluggish), and Black bile (thoughtful). To restore proper health, those need to be equalized.
Which defense mechanism is being used?
"Sam, who is very aggressive, becomes a football player."
Sublimation is being used.
What are some traits of a superego?
They have morality and are determined to be good they develop this through their childhood. (Moral principle)
The main focus is on an individual's self-concept: a collection of beliefs and attitudes about oneself.
They were called Neo-Freudians.
What are Cardinal Traits?
Cardinal Traits are the most dominant traits that shape a person's personality.
Which defense mechanism is being used and why?
"If I don't have breakfast, I can have a cupcake later on without hurting my diet.”
Rationalization because this person is making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior.
What are some traits of Id?
Ids would want instant gratification with no concern for rules or laws and focus on pleasure for themselves. They act childish. An Id is present at birth.
What was the main concept that Carl Rogers believed in?
Carl Rogers believed in a "Person-centered" perspective of differentiating between ones actual self and an ideal self.
What did Neo-Freudians believe?
They believed Freud's ideas but they disagreed with his emphasis on sexual desires and believed social experience was more important and played a larger role. With that view, it led them to the new name: "Psychodynamic".
What are Secondary Traits? And provide an example when they are revealed.
Secondary traits are variable traits that are exhibited only in certain circumstances. It is a side of oneself that can only be revealed to a best friend or in a different way when alone.
Explain the defense mechanism projection.
Projection is one places one’s own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts belonged to them and not to oneself.
Id, Ego, Superego.
According to Carl Rogers, wHat are the things people need to be treated with in order to grow into their actual selves?
Carl Rogers believed genuineness, acceptance, and ampathy are the 3 main things needed to grow into one's actual self.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot test and how does it work?
It is where a subject's perceptions of inkblots are recorded and analyzed using psychological interpretation. It is used to determine personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
What is neuroticism and stability?
Neuroticism is when one has extreme moodiness, restlessness, anxiety, worry, etc.
Stability is when one is even-tempered, calm, relaxed, and emotionally stable.