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Understanding Personality: Theories and Concepts

Explore the theories and concepts of personality, including Freud's psychoanalysis, unconscious drives, ego defense mechanisms, and the humanistic approach. Gain insight into the complexities of human behavior and the formation of the self-concept.

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Understanding Personality: Theories and Concepts

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  1. Chapter 11 Personality

  2. Personality

  3. An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

  4. Personality theory

  5. A theory that attempts to describe and explain individual similarities and differences

  6. Psychoanalysis

  7. Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality, which emphasizes unconscious determinants of behavior, sexual and aggressive instinctual drives, and the enduring effects of early childhood experiences on later personality development

  8. Free association

  9. A psychoanalytic technique in which the patient spontaneously repots all thoughts,feelings, and mental images as they come to mind

  10. Unconscious

  11. In Freud’s theory, a term used to describe thoughts, feelings, wishes, and drives that are operating below the level of conscious awareness

  12. Id

  13. In Freud’s theory, the completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction or instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the pleasure principle

  14. Eros

  15. In Freud’s theory, the self-preservation or life instinct, reflected in the expression of basic biological urges that perpetuate the existence of the individual and the spices

  16. Libido

  17. In Freud’s theory, the psychological and emotional energy associated with expressions of sexuality.

  18. Thanatos

  19. In Freud’s theory, the death instinct, reflected in aggressive, destructive, and self-destructive actions

  20. Pleasure Principle

  21. In Freud’s theory, the motive to obtain pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort; the most fundamental human motive and the guiding principle of the id

  22. Ego

  23. In Freud’s theory, the partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior and is most in touch with the demands of the external world

  24. Reality Principle

  25. In Freud’s theory, the awareness of environmental demands and the capacity to accommodate them by postponing gratification until the appropriate time or circumstances exist

  26. Superego

  27. In Freud’s theory, the partly conscious, self-evaluative, moralistic component of personality that is formed through the internalization of parental and societal rules

  28. Ego defense mechanisms

  29. in psychoanalytical theory, largely unconscious distortions of thoughts or perceptions that act to reduce anxiety

  30. Repression

  31. In psychoanalytical theory, the unconscious exclusion of anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, and memories from conscious awareness; the most fundamental ego defense mechanism

  32. Displacement

  33. In psychoanalytical theory, the ego defense mechanism that involves unconsciously shifting the target of an emotional urge to a substitute target that is less threatening or dangerous

  34. Sublimation

  35. In psychoanalytical theory, an ego defense mechanism that involves redirecting sexual urges toward productive, socially acceptable, nonsexual activities; a form of displacement

  36. Psychosexual stages

  37. In Freud’s theory, age related developmental periods in which the child’s sexual urges are expressed through different areas of the body and those activities associated with those areas

  38. Oedipus complex

  39. In Freud’s theory, a child’s unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent, usually by hostile feelings toward the same-sex parent

  40. Identification

  41. In psychoanalytical theory, an ego defense mechanism hat involves reducing anxiety by modeling the behavior and characteristics of another person

  42. collective unconscious

  43. In Jung’s theory, the hypothesized part of the unconscious mind that is inherited from previous generations and that contains universally shared ancestral experiences and ideas.

  44. Archetype

  45. In Jung’s theory, the inherited mental images of universal human instincts, themes, and preoccupations that are the main components of the collective unconscious

  46. Humanistic Psychology

  47. The theoretical viewpoint on personality that generally emphasizes the inherent goodness of people, human potential, self-actualization, the self-concept, and healthy personality development

  48. Actualizing tendency

  49. In Roger’s theory, the innate drive to maintain and enhance the human organism

  50. Self-concept

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