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personality - correct answer ✔✔long-standing traits and patterns that cause individuals to consistently
think, feel, and behave in specific ways
phrenology - correct answer ✔✔- Franz Gall
- proposed that distances between bumps on skull reveal person's personality traits/character/mental
abilities
- discredited for lack of empirical support
Sigmund Freud - correct answer ✔✔proposed that unconscious drives influenced by sex, aggression, and
childhood sexuality influence personality
neo-freudians - correct answer ✔✔- agreed w/ freud that childhood experiences matter
- less emphasis of sex/aggression
- focused on environmental factors and effects of culture on personality
unconscious - correct answer ✔✔mental activity of which we are unaware and unable to access
Levels of Unconsciousness - correct answer ✔✔- Sigmund Freud
- thought we are only aware of a small amount of our mind's activities and most remains hidden from us
in unconscious
- unacceptable urges are kept from us in unconscious through repression
- info in our unconscious affects behaviors but we aren't aware of it
repression - correct answer ✔✔keeps unacceptable urges hidden in unconscious
, Freudian Slip - correct answer ✔✔slips of tongue are sexual/aggressive urges accidentally slipping from
unconscious
2 competing forces that personality results from: - correct answer ✔✔1) biological aggressive and
pleasure-seeking drives
2) internal control over these pleasure-seeking drives
Id - correct answer ✔✔- contains primitive urges (sex, thirst, hunger)
- impulsive, instinctual
- operates on pleasure principle - seeks immediate gratification
ego - correct answer ✔✔- attempts to balance id and superego
- operates on reality principle - helps satisfy id in realistic way
- the part of personality seen by others
superego - correct answer ✔✔- develops through identification, learning social rules for right and wrong
- moral compass to tell us how to behave based on rules
- strives for perfection + judges behavior - leads to feelings of pride/guilt
balanced Id and Superego = ? - correct answer ✔✔healthy personality
imbalanced Id and Superego = ? - correct answer ✔✔neurosis (tendency to experience negative
emotions), anxiety, or unhealthy behaviors
defense mechanisms - correct answer ✔✔- unconscious, protective behaviors to reduce anxiety
- used by ego to balance Id and Superego
- Freud believed them to be used by everyone but overuse can be problematic
8 defense mechanisms: - correct answer ✔✔1) denial
2) displacement
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