Ap Psych Chapter 10, 12, 13 Study Guide

Alexa Polin
AP Psych Ch 10, 12, 13 Study Guide

CHAPTER 10 | PERSONALITY |
Personality | A person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
Free association | In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial and embarrassing |
Psychoanalysis | Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions |
Unconscious | According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories |
The Id | The bad thing; the devil on your shoulder saying, “Do it do it…”-Unconscious desires (sex, drugs) |
Superego | Good guy; little angel on your shoulder saying, “You know that’s not right…”-Moral compass that details right from wrong |
Ego | Negotiator who keeps both sides happy-The “smart guy” who figures out a way for the id and the superego to get what they want |
Oral stage | 0-8 months, pleasure enters on the mouth |
Anal stage | 18 months-3 years, pleasure centers on potty training |
Phallic stage | 3-6 years, pleasure centers on the genitals including incestuous feelings |
Latency | 6-puberty, sexuality is dormant (inactive) |
Genital | Puberty+, sexuality is matured |
Defense mechanisms | Emerge when ego cannot do its job |
Repression | Pushing desires that cause anxiety out of our consciousness |
Regression | Going back to our comfortable childhood days when we face stressful situations |
Reactions formation | Freud thought we had desires that we know we couldn’t allow to surface |
Projection | Hides those bad desires by projecting them onto other people |
Rationalization | Occurs when we make up a justification for doing something that we know is wrong |
Displacement | Directs the unwanted desire (sex or aggression) towards something... [continues]

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