Remediation for Unit 8 - Personality Test

Sigmund Freud proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

Focuses on our inner capacities for growth and selffulfillment (led by Maslow and Rogers).

a person's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

(Psychoanalysis) method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

The unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy sexual and aggressive drives.

The conscious "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego and reality.

Satisfying the id's desires in ways that brings long-term pleasure It is what ego operates on.

According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires for mom and jealousy for father.

(0-18 months) Pleasure centers on the mouth.

(18-36 months) Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination;oping with demands for control.

(6-puberty) Dormant sexual feelings.

(puberty on) Maturation of sexual interests. Freud thought it was where sexuality re-emerges meaning earlier desires are in the unconscious, superego takes parental values and children begin to agree with same-sex parents.

According to Freud, process where children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos. He also believed that it forms gender identity when it is done with the same sex parent.

According to Freud, lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.