Psychoanalytic Theory
A reservoir of unconscious energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Part of the personality operates on the pleasure principle demanding immediate gratification.
What is the Id?
Redirection of emotions or impulses toward a less threatening object or person.
What is Displacement?
What is the Hierarchy of needs?
These two psychologists agreed in the person-centered perspective that people are good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies.
Who are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?
These tests aim to provide a "psychological X-ray
What are projective tests?
Largely conscious part of personality that mediates the demands of the id, superego, and reality. Operates on the reality principle.
What is the Ego?
Transferring of emotions and impulses toward socially valued motives.
What is Sublimation?
All the thoughts and feelings we have in response to the question "Who am I?"
What is self-concept?
Group who agreed with Freud`s three components of personality (id, ego and superego) and the emphasis on the unconscious.
Who were the neo-Freudians?
Modern research challenges this Freudian idea
What is repression?
Represents morals, standards for judgement, social norms, and future aspirations.
What is the Superego?
Can be found in most examples. Underlies and enables all the other defense mechanisms.
What is Repression?
What is self-transcendence?
Which psychoanalyst said "The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect."
Who is Karen Horney?
Some clinicians use this projective test as a suggestive lead, icebreaker, or revealing interview technique.
What is the Rorschach test?
Reality principle and balance
What is the Ego?
After a loud bang the child ran towards their parent seeking protection and comfort.
What is Regression?
When people are accepting, they offer this...
What is unconditional positive regard?
The "inferiority complex" is derived from this psychoanalyst
Who is Alfred Adler?
Thinking about one's mortality provokes defenses is an example of what theory?
terror-management theory
This happens when the superego is too strong.
What is excessive guilt/anxiety?
Example: "A student who wants to postpone an exam by saying 'My grandmother lied... er, I mean died,' should probably be allowed the postponement."
What is a Freudian slip?
The process of fulfilling our potential
What is self-actualization?
This person believed that people have a collective unconscious, or archetypes, derived from our species' universal experiences.
Who is Carl Jung?
Test which shows ambiguous pictures and then make up stories about them