AP Psych Class Announcements:

1. AP Psych Class Announcements: Pass back all papers Quiz: Ian, Kyle, Hannah, Sophie, Malea, Krystina, Victoria, Justice, Dove, Cierra, Aim: to explain Freud’s theory of personality Do NOW: Witty Ticcy Ray Matching Review HW: Study for ch 13 test!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Practice questions Bring notecards

2. Personality A person’s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.

4. Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Won our mind!!!! • Fathered by Sigmund Freud. • Idea of the Libido moving to different parts of our body. What’s on our minds!!! Sigmund Freud

7. Our Personality • Conscious- things we are aware of. • Preconscious- things we can be aware of if we think of them. • Unconscious- deep hidden reservoir that holds the true “us”. All of our desires and fears.

9. Freud’s Concept of Personality (Psyche) • Freud believed that our personality arises from the conflict b/t impulse and restraint: • He proposed 3 interacting systems: • Ego • Superego • Id

10. Id • Exists entirely in the unconscious (so we are never aware of it). • Our hidden true animalistic wants and desires. • Works on the Pleasure Principle • Avoid Pain and receive Instant Gratification.

11. Ego • Develops after the Id • Works on the Reality Principle • Negotiates between the Id and the super ego. • Develops most rational, safest ideas.

12. The Ego moderates between the Id and the Superego.

13. Superego • Develops last at about the age of 5 • It is our conscience • Works off the Moral principle

15. Which is it? Id, Ego, Superego? • Running a red light is not safe • Running a red light is unlawful • I want that dress even if its expensive • If I drive the speed limit, I’ll save gas and not feel rushed. • I better leave the house before I say something I’ll regret. • I just want to sleep in and come to school late.

16. Defense Mechanisms • The ego has a pretty important job…and that is to protect you from threatening thoughts in our unconscious. • Their role is to reduce anxiety. • You are usually unaware that they are even occurring.

17. Scenario Quarterback of the high school football team, Brandon, is dating Jasmine. Jasmine dumps Brandon and starts dating Drew, president of the chess club. Jasmine Brandon Drew

18. Repression • Pushing thoughts into our unconscious. Forgetting • When asked about Jasmine, Brandon may say “Who?, I have not thought about her for awhile.”

19. Denial • Not accepting something that is upsetting • Brandon may act like he is still together with Jasmine. He may hang out by her locker and plan dates with her.

20. Displacement • Redirecting one’s feelings toward another person or object. • Taking it out on another. Brandon may take his anger on another kid by bullying.

21. Projection • Believing that the feelings one has toward someone else are actually held by the other person and directed at oneself. • Brandon insists that Jasmine still cares for him.

22. Reaction Formation • Expressing the opposite of how one truly feels. • Brandon claims he hates Jasmine.

23. Regression • Returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior. • Brandon begins to sleep with his favorite childhood stiffed animal, Gravy.

24. Rationalization • Coming up with a beneficial result of an undesirable outcome. • Brandon thinks he will find a better girlfriend. “Jasmine was not all that anyway!” • I really did want to go to ……..anyway, it was too ……

25. Sublimation • Channeling one’s behavior toward a more socially acceptable goal. • Brandon starts to learn how to play the guitar and writing songs • An aggressive person goes out for football

27. E.g., a child who is molested, may suppress the traumatic event so that he/she has no memory for the event.

28. You steal and say, “Well, I spend a lot of money at this store!”

29. Ex: Soldiers crying for “mommy” Ex: Fighting couples acting immature.

30. E.g., After being grilled by your boss, you go home & yell at your partner or the dog/cat. Peeing on the teacher’s car.

31. E.g., Your partner tells you how selfish you are, when they are in fact selfish.

32. E.g., A person who doubts his faith may act like a religious zealot to defend his religion.

33. E.g., you hear a friend has died & won’t believe it’s true. “I don’t have drinking problem”

34. E.g., Aggressive impulses are transformed into the urge to engage in competitive sports.

35. Hal is fearful of men who are friendly toward him, convinced that they are all homosexuals attempting to seduce him. Should it be the case that Hal is himself a latent homosexual fearful of admitting this even to himself, we might conclude that he is using the defense mechanisms of repression and • A. reaction formation • B. projection • C. displacement • D. regression • E. denial

36. A man who has numerous reasons to hate his mother instead lavishes her with unrealistic amounts of attention and love. He is probably exhibiting the defense mechanism of • A. regression • B. identification • C. reaction formation • D. displacement • E.projection

37. When parents refuse to accept several psychologists’ diagnosis of a child’s mental illness, they are using which of the following defense mechanisms? • A. Denial • B. Displacement • C. Projection • D. Rationalization • E. Regression

38. Freud’s psychosexual stages • Oral (0-1) • Anal (2-3) • Phallic (4-5) • Latency (6-12) • Genital (puberty and older) • Each stage has a pleasure center – center for libidnal (sexual) energy

39. Oral Stage

40. Oral Stage • The pleasure center is the mouth. Freud said the pleasure center moves around the body as we develop. • Freud said if we are not gratified at this stage we will befixated at this stage. • Adults who are fixated at this stage like to do things with mouth for pleasure (smoking, eating, chew gum, bite nails, other things.)

41. What is a result of being fixated at the oral stage? • A.overeating • B.biting sarcasm • C. pessimistic and hostile • D.passive • E.submissive (child-like • dependency)

42. Anal Stage

43. Anal stage Personality traits from fixation? • Anal retentive are overly-neat ,organized, stingy • Anal repulsive are overly messy and irresponsible.

44. Phallic stage • Genitals are the pleasure zone. • Oedipal complex– boys have erotically tinged preference for their mother – compete with their father for mother’s attention

45. Personality traits from Phallic fixation: • Vanity • Egotism • Low self-esteem • Shyness • Avoidance of heterosexual relationships • For girls: flirtatious, promiscuous • For boys: sexual prowess and mistreatment of women

46. Phallic Stage con’t…Oedipus Complex • Identification: hopefully boys begin to identify with dad “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” • p.s. Freud said guys who brag about sexual exploits are fixated in this stage

47. Phallic stage cont. . .Electra Complex • Electra complex (girls’ equivalent to Oedipus) • Also said that. . . Girls have penis envy and blame and resent their mothers for their anatomical deficiency.

48. Latency • The latency period “the cooties stage” begins sometime around the age of six and ends when puberty starts to begin. • Latency – sexuality is hidden (latency = hidden) Children in same sex groups. Boys hang with father. Girls with mother.

49. Genital stage (puberty ++) • Libidinal energy is not focused on your own genitals (like in the phallic stage) but on other people’s genitals. • Fixation in earlier stages will hinder this stage.

50. Psychosexual stages Review • List the psychosexual states in their order • What is the name of the process where a child incorporates a parent’s values or ideals?