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Personality is… Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting –It is what makes us unique
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Today – focus on biological roots, nurture of environment, self-serving bias, and cultural influences Psychoanalytic –Childhood sexuality and unconscious drive personality Humanistic –Inner capacities for growth and self- fulfillment drive personality
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Psychoanalysis – NOTHING IS ACCIDENTAL Freud –Hypnosis (lacked something, think testing…) –Free association –Personality is – what arises from conflict between impulse and restraint What does that mean?
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Where else did we talk about Freud this year?
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So how do we break into our unconscious? What is our unconscious?
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Just for reference if you need it…
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So let’s go back to his definition of personality again Arises from the conflict between impulse and restraint –Which is the biological function, which is the social contrast?
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Psychoanalytical Personality Development Freudian stages (id dominated) –Psychosexual phases thru erogenous zones
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Psychosexual Stages Chart
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Freud Applications Oedipus or Electra Complexes
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What is anxiety? What role does the Ego play in anxiety? Unresolved conflicts = fixation on a psychosexual phase
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Defense Mechanisms – reduce/redirect anxiety by distorting reality Repression –Underlies ALL OTHER DM’S –Seen thru dreams and slips of the tongue Regression –Homesick from camp/college –Thumb sucking Reaction formation –I hate him/her because I love him/her. Projection –She or he doesn’t trust me = I don’t trust myself Rationalization –“Social drinkers” Displacement –Everyday of your teenage life… Denial –S/he would never cheat on me… –It’s going to be different this time…
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Neo-Freudians Took basic ideas and a.Focused more on consciousness b.Discussed items outside of sex and aggression Psychoanalytic = Freud Psychodynamic = all about the unconscious based on but outside of Freudian stages and/or id, ego, superego
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Alfred Adler Childhood is important, focus on social not sexual tensions –Inferiority complex –Fictional finalism The ends justify the means all men created equal –Birth order studies
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PRONOUNCED HORN-EYE Basic anxiety studies 3 ways we relate to others (toward, away, against) Womb envy Childhood anxiety caused by dependent child’s helplessness –Triggers desire for love and security –Believed Freud to be SUPER biased
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Carl Jung Less emphasis on social, more on repression Archetypes (self, shadow) Collective unconscious –Why are people spiritual? Who do you mourn more and why? –Victims of Sandy Hook? –Collateral damage of 22 victims in Afghanistan?
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Assessing the unconscious Projective tests –TAT: Thematic Apperception Test –Rorschach Inkblot
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Why can’t I trust my husband?
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Rorschach Inkblot Highly subjective Today used as an icebreaker in psychoanalysis Inner feelings or mindset linked to interpretation of inkblot
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Criticisms of Freud/Psychoanalysis Freud and Ford But! –Where’s the social aspect? –Cultural aspect? –Evolutionary traits? Loftus studies and repression vs. false memory
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Where is Freud correct? We have limited access to our minds The unconscious goes into… –Two track mind –Schemas –Priming –Split brain –Parallel processing –Implicit memories –Emotions before analysis of event –Self concept and stereotypes Defense mechanisms and false consensus effects
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Conclusion WE DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST ANXIETY –How do we go about doing that? I don’t know… ask Freud. Application –Terror management theory
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What is going through your mind?
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Terror Management Theory –People explore emotions and have certain behavioral responses when dealing with impending death
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