PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thematic Apperception Test, Phallic Stage, Oral Stage
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Test 3 review terms: personality - an individual"s characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving, psychoanalytic approach - focuses on the importance of the unconscious mind. The id is unconcerned with the consequences of acting on these urges as long as it obtains total gratification immediately. Specifically, the pleasure principle is the driving force guiding the id: reality principle - the guide directing our unacceptable sexual and aggressive urges to more acceptable targets. Fixation also refers to an inability to adopt any different or new perspective on a problem: freud"s five stages of psychosexual development, oral stage - pleasure centers on the mouth - sucking, biting, and ii. iii. chewing. Anal stage - pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control. Phallic stage - pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestous sexual feelings. Latency stage - dormant sexual feelings. iv: genital stage - maturation of sexual interests.
