unit 8: personality

• psychoanalytic theory: Freuds theory that focuses on the unconscious mind and how childhood trauma influences our behaviour and personality
• psychodynamic theory: the focus on unconscious mind influences our thoughts, emotions, and behavior due to childhood experiences
• psychoanalysis: a theory that the minds energy is exchanged, transformed, and expressed
• psychoanalytic: form of therapy aimed to bring out unconscious thoughts and feelings to the surface
• free association: method used to explore the unconscious mind, the person relaxes whilst syaing whatever comes to mind
• dream interpretation: analyzing and understanding what your dreams mean thus revealing your hidden desires
• freudian slip: when someone unintentionally says something that reveals their true desires
• ego: conscious rational part that compromises betweem the id and superego
• reality principal: egos ability to mediate between the id and the superego
• defense mechanisms: thoughts that are used to reduce anxiety
• superego: opposes the bad ideas of the ID being the "should and should not's"
• Id: opposes good ideas and always acts on impulse always wanting to feel immediate pleasure, avoiding discomfort
• libido: term created by freud to describe the sexual drive or sexual instincts
• oral stage: birth-18 months focuses on pleasure on the mouth
• anal stage: 18 months- 3 years kids learning to control bowel movement pleasure focused on anal region
• phalic stage: 6 to puberty, children are attracted to their opposite sex parent
• latency stage: 6 to puberty seek friendship with the same gender
• genital stage: after puberty, sexual desires and sex identity
• oedipus complex: during the phalic stage, boy is in love with his mom
• electra complex: phalic stage, girl is in love with her dad
• indentification: during latency stage, the kid starts to act like the same gender parent so they can get love from opposite gender parent
• penis envy: during the phalic stage when girls notice their lack of a penis, they see it as a deficit
• anal retentive personality: a person who is obsessive about cleanliness and hygiene
• anal expulsive personality: youre disorganized, careless, and artistic
• phalic traits: a person has trouble relating to the opposite sex
• oral trait: youre obsessed with unhealthy behaviors that include your mouth
• rorschach inkblot test: identifies inner feelings by analyzing the persons interpretations
• repression: subconsciously blocking undesireable ideas
• regression: you mirror immature behavior
• reaction formation: someone acts opposite to how they really feel
• rationalization: a process by which people attempt to justify or excuse their unacceptable behavior
• displacement: transfer of negative emotions to something or someone unrelated
• sublimation: the process by which a person turns their aggressive or sexual feelings into more positive behaviours

  ex; being more productive when youre sad
• denial: people refuse to believe something painful
• projection: someone doesnt want something to happen so they believe another person is doing that because theyre doing that

  ex; thinking your partner is cheating on you because youre cheating on them
• humanistic theory of personality: made up of needs to adapt and learn
• self-actualizing personalities: healthy indiviuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and have a peak experience
• carl rogers: identified healthy personality as "fully functioning person"
• fully functioning person: an indiviual who has self-concept thats positve and is realistc about it
• positive self regard: a persons feeling about themself based off of surronding factors