Freudian Psychodynamic Theory
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The Neo-Freudian Theorists
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The Neo-Freudian Theorists
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.
What is psychoanalysis?
Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities.
What is Denial?
What is self-esteem?
The personality test that consists of a model that defines human personality as the combination of 5 personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism.
What is the OCEAN personality test?
The two pioneering humanistic theorists.
Who are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rodgers?
a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
What is Projection?
One's sense of competence and effectiveness.
What is self-efficacy?
A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli disigned to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
What is a projective test?
According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved.
According to Freud, this is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.
What is unconscious?
Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions.
What is rationalization?
Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).
What is the spotlight effect?
A test of 10 inkblots, seeking to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.
What is a Rorschach inkblot test?
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
What is self-concept?
Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.
What is collective unconscious?
Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
What is Displacement?
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
What is self-serving bias?
A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
What is a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
According to Carl Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
What is unconditional positive regard?
This theorist believed that individuals feel at home in life and feel their existence to be worthwhile just so far as they are useful to others and overcome feelings of inferiority.
Who is Alfred Adler?
Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
What is Reaction Formation?
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
The most common psychometric test devised to assess personality traits and psychopathology.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
The modern field of study Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow set the groundwork for.
What is positive psychology?