personality Answer: a distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives, and
emotions that characterizes an individual
trait Answer: a characterisitc of an individual describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, or
feeling
psychoanalysis Answer: a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by
Sigmund Freud; it emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts
psychodynamic theories Answer: theories that explain behavior and personality in terms of
unconscious energy dynamics within the individual. emphasizes the movement of psychological energy
within the person in the forms of attatchments, conflicts, and motivations.
ego Answer: part of a personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self control
id Answer: part of a personality containing inherited psychic energy, particularly sexual and
aggressive instincts.
libido Answer: psychic energy that fuels the life or sexual instincts of the id
superego Answer: part of the personality that represents conscience, morality, and social standards.
defense mechanisms Answer: methods used by the ego to prevent unconscious anxiety or
threatening thoughts from entering the unconscious
, name and describe the different defense mechanisms Answer: 1. repression- occurs when a
threatening idea, memory, or emotion is blocked from consciousness
2. projection- when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then
attributed to others
3. displacement-when people direct their emotions towards things, animals, or other people that are
not the real object of their feelings.
4. regression- when a person reverts to a previous stage of psychological development
5. denial- when people refuse to admit that something unpleasant is happening
psychosexual stages Answer: in Freud's theory, the idea that sexual energy takes different forms as
the child matures. the stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.
Oedipus complex Answer: a conflict occuring in the phallic stage, in which a child desires a parent of
the other sex and views the same-sex parent as a rival
collective unconscious Answer: in jungian theory, the universal memories and experiences of
humankind, represented in symbols, stories, and images (archetypes) that occur across all cultures
archetypes Answer: universal, symbolic images that appear in myths, arts, stories, and dreams; to
jungians they reflect the collective unconscious.
object-relations school Answer: a psychodynamic approach that emphasizes the importance of the
infants first 2 years of life and the baby's formative relationships, especially with the mother
name the 3 failings psychodynamic theories are guilty of. Answer: 1. violate principle of falsifiability-
many psychodynamic concepts about unconscious motivations are, in fact, impossible to confirm or
disconfirm.
2.drawing universal principles from the experiences of few atypical patients
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