Theorists
Called the "executive of the mind". Most closely resembling the reality of now.
What is the EGO?
Returning to an earlier more comfortable developmental stage of life after a trauma.
What is Regression
The thoughts in ones mind that are closed or hidden to your own awareness.
What is unconscious mind
All the experiences that are in our immediate thoughts. Our reality right now.
What is the conscious mind?
According to Freud, this part is the judgment or control center of the mind.
What is the Superego?
Erikson:tasks have been resolved over the years and we are able to look back and gain pride from our accomplishments. If there is dissatisfaction with our lives it can lead to dispair. what stage is this
65 and older , Ego vs Despair.
Making up for deficiencies in one area by excelling in another.
What is compensation?
Erikson:
Generativity vs Stagnation. Age?
30-65. Achieving life goals and trying to better help the community. Giving back.
Erikson:
Intimacy vs isolation
20-30. Forming lasting and intense relationships. Building families and an inner social circle.
Erikson: Initiative vs guilt?
Children begin to explore environment and find new roles. 3-6yrs.
Maslow: the second most important need on Maslows hierarchy after physiologic.
Safety: Free of danger. Secure in your environment.
This is used on a totally unconscious level: for example: Hearing your spouse died suddenly and calling them at work to say hello.
What is denial?
Piaget: Learning to express self with language: symbolic gestures. and achieving object permanence.
What is 2-6yrs. Preoperational.
Adult unmarried partners with or without children. What type of family unit is this
What is Cohabitative?
Maslow: What is the basic most important needs according to Maslow
Physiologic: Water, food , air.
Erikson: Trust vs Mistrust. Age and developmental tasks
Birth-18months. Developing trust in parent figures.
converting unconscious feelings into physical manifestations. example: You witness a crime and become blind.
What is conversion.
Maslow: When you have reached the highest level of maslows heirarchy.
Self Actualization: Meeting full potential.
Adult partners, grandparents and or children all living togeather
What is Extended family?
Piaget: The stage that infants begin to respond to their environment through reflexes.
Sensorimotor. Birth-2yrs
Erikson: To review ones life and derive meaning and a positive sense of worth
Ego integrity vs Despair. 65>
Blaming mechanism: for example, a man accuses his partner of cheating when it was actually he who did the cheating.
What is Projection.
Libido is the driving force in this
What is The id?
The stage of development according to Erikson where they are trying to find an identity
12-20. identity vs role confusion.
Piaget:Learning to think and reason abstractly. Expanding logic and reasoning. Achieving cognitive maturaty
Formal Operational:12-and up