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Cards (48)

  • need for sexual and emotional bonding
    life instinct aka eros
  • aggressive drive
    death instinct or thanatos
  • human being's basic drive
    id
  • person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with demands of society
    ego
  • cultural values and norms internalized by individual
    superego
  • the world is bewildering assortment of PHYSICAL SENSATIONS that bring either PLEASURE or PAIN
    to the id-centered child
  • child learns MORAL CONCEPTS of rRIGHT & WRONG, they feel good or bad accdg to how they judge their behavior against cultural norms
    as superego develops
  • id and superego remain in conflict, but in a well-adjusted person, these opposing forces can be managed with the help of this
    ego
  • if _____ are not resolved during childhood, Freud claims that they may surface as PERSONALITY DISORDERS later on
    conflicts
  • _____, in the form of superego REPRESSES selfish demands, forcing ppl to look beyond their own desires
    culture
  • often the competing demands of self and society results in a compromise that Freud calls as ____
    sublimation
  • what redirects selfish drives into socially acceptable behavior?
    Sublimation
  • ex of sublimation: _____ makes satisfaction of sexual urges as socially acceptable
    marriage
  • ex of sublimation: competitive ____ are outlet for aggression
    sports
  • swiss psychologist who studied human COGNITION
    Jean Piaget
  • refers to how people think and understand
    cognition
  • as piaget watched his own 3 children grow, he wondered not just what they knew but also how they made sense of the world and proposed this theory
    theory of cognitive development
  • level of human development at w/c indivs experience world only through their SENSES
    sensorimotor stage
  • level of human dev't at w/c indivs first use language & other symbols
    preoperational stage
  • level of human dev't at w/c indiv first see casual connections in their surroundings
    concrete operational stage
  • level of human dev't at w/c indivd think abstractly & critically
    formal operational stage
  • he built on Piaget's work to study moral reasoning
    Lawrence Kohlberg
  • refers to how indivs judge situation as right or wrong
    moral reasoning
  • Kohlberg's moral reasoning of development that occurs in stages
    theory of moral dev't (1981)
  • equivalent to Piaget's sensorimotor stage
    preconventional level
  • at this early stage, rightness amounts to what feels good to me
    preconventional level
  • equivalent to piaget's formal operational stage
    conventional level
  • at this point, young ppl lose some of their selfishness as they learn to define what is right and wrong in the terms of what pleases parents and conforms to cultural norms. indivs at this stage begins to assess intention in reaching moral judgment instead of simply looking at what ppl do
    conventional level
  • ppl move beyond their society's norm to consider abstract ethical principles (e.g., liberty, freedom, justice; arguing what is legal may still not be morally right)
    postconventional level
  • her approach is highlighted in Thinking about Diversity box, she compared moral dev't of girls and boys and concluded that 2 sexes use diff. standards of rightness
    Carol Gilligan
  • boys rely on formal rules to define what is right and wrong
    justice perspective
  • girls judge a situation with an eye toward personal relationships and loyalties
    care & responsibility perspective
  • what is carol gilligan's theory?
    theory of gender and moral development
    • he lived in vienna at a time when most europeans considered human behv to be biologically fixed
    • trained as physician
    • gradually studies personality and mental disorders
    sigmund Freud
  • what theory did freud developed?
    theory of psychoanalysis
  • freud claimed that _____ plays a major part in human devt, although not in terms of specific instincts, as in the case of other species
    biology
  • freud theorized that humans have how many basic needs or drives that are present at birth?
    2
  • these opposing forces of drives accdg to freud is operating at an _____ level and create deeper tension
    unconscious
  • although some analysts including Freud point to childhood as crucial time when personality takes shape, he took a broader view of socialization. who is he?
    erik h. erikson
  • theory of Erikson where he explained that we face challenges throughout life course
    theory/stages of psychosocial development