What is personality? Correct Answer: Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
What are the FOUR main approaches to the study of personality? Correct Answer: 1. Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic
2. Humanist
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What is personality? Correct Answer: Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
What are the FOUR main approaches to the study of personality? Correct Answer: 1. Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic
2. Humanistic
3. Trait
4. Social-cognitive
What are the two aspects of the self? Correct Answer: Self-esteem and self serving-bias
Who developed the first major theory of personality? Correct Answer: Sigmund Freud
Who was Sigmund Freud? Correct Answer: He was the first to propose a theory on personality (psychoanalytic)
Sigmund Freud, a medical doctor, specialized in what type of disorders? Correct Answer: Nervous
Freud developed his theory in response to his observation on what? Correct Answer: That many patients had disorders that did not make neurological sense
At first, what did Freud think would unlock the door to the unconscious? Correct Answer: Hypnosis
What was Freud's theory called? Correct Answer: Psychoanalytic theory
What were the main focuses of Freud's theory? Correct Answer: The theory focuses on UNCONSCIOUS MIND, SEXUAL AGGRESSION, and CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE. It encourages patients to speak their minds in order to get better; believed dreams were a road to a persons unconscious mind; painful unconscious memories are exposed
According to this theory, many of a person's thoughts, wishes, and feelings are hidden in a large____ region. Some of the thoughts in this region can be retrieved at will into consciousness; these thoughts are said to be ____. Many of the memories of this region, however, are blocked, or ____ from consciousness. Correct Answer: Unconscious
Preconscious
Repressed
What is the unconscious? Correct Answer: Thoughts, feelings, wishes, memories and desires below conscious awareness. Holds thoughts that influence patients behavior in a disguised form
How does the unconscious relate to psychological disorder in Freud's theory? How did Freud try to help his patients? Correct Answer: Freud believed that physiological problems were caused by unconscious psychological conflicts. He believed that once these conflicts were uncovered, the problem would go away
How did Freud attempt to access the unconscious mind? Correct Answer: Free association and Dream analysis
Free association: Correct Answer: The technique later used by Freud in which the patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Dream analysis: Correct Answer: Interpreting/examining dreams because they are believed to be highly symbolic expressions of the unconscious mind
Freud believed that all facets of personality arise from conflict between what? Correct Answer: Our biological impulses and the social restraints against them
According to Freud, personality consists of three interacting structures: Correct Answer: 1. Id
2. Ego
3. Superego
Id: Correct Answer: -Personality present from birth
-Basic instincts that are entirely unconscious and guide one to what feels good (PLEASURE PRINCIPLE)
-Immediate gratification
Ego: Correct Answer: -Develops in first few years of life to satisfy the id (comes after Id)
-Takes reality into account i
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