Psychoanalyctic Theory
How does an ego protect themselves?
By defense mechanism: methods the ego uses to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions
What is a Personality?
Characteristics that define a person's behavior, cognition, and emotion
What are Traits?
Relatively stable, habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion that make up an individual’s personality
How many psychological defense mechanism are there?
There is about 31 mechanisms
What is the general psychodynamic theory?
Unconsious process and unresolved conflicts from our past and their effect on our behaviors.
How can unconscious ideas be expressed?
Dreams, free motives, slips of the tongue
What is the basic belief of a Humanistic Theory?
All people are inherently good
What are the 4 basic humors?
Yellow bile
Blood
Phlgem
Black bile
Defense mechanism that involves a refusal to accept reality?
Denial
What does TAT mean?
Thematic Apperception Test
What is free association?
Person talks freely without censoring thoughts
What did Carl Rogers believe in ?
He believed in a “person-centered” perspective of differentiating between actual self and ideal self
Who whent through the entire dictionary to organize 4500 words?
Gordon Allport
Defense mechanisms that are feelings from within are blamed onto other people
Projection
What was the term for people who were influenced by Freud but modified his ideas?
Neo- Freudians
What are the three psychoanalytic Approaches ?
Id : instincts , Ego : Reality, Superego : Morality
What was the central focus on an individual?
Their Self Concept: collection of beliefs and attitudes about oneself
What are the three traits?
Cardinal, Central, and Secondary Traits
What is sublimation?
Turning socially unacceptable urges into a socially acceptable behavior
What is a Rorschach Inkblot Test?
Inkblots that are analyzed using psychological interpretation to examine personality characteristics
What was Sigmund Freud's Idea?
His idea is to attribute personality to unconsious motives and childhood experiences
What did Abraham Maslow create?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid
Who concluded personality is described in 3 basic dimensions?
C. Hans Eyesenvk
What is another word for Rationalization?
Justification- making up acceptable excuses
What is Thematic apperception test?
Subjects that reveal their unconscious motives, feelings, and interests in stories they make up about scenes