PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Terror Management Theory, Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung
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Denial: refuse to believe that source of anxiety exists. Repression: push anxiety-inducing ideas out of awareness. Reaction formation: instigate behaviors that are the exact opposites of the anxiety- inducing impulse. Projection: take uncomfortable impulses off the self and place them on others. Sublimation: channeling an unacceptable impulse into a socially acceptable activity. Fixation: leaving too much libido behind in a stage. Regression: retreat to an earlier more immature stage. Psychic energy (libido) required for each stage, limited quantity. Talk therapy used to uncover unconscious aspects of personality (aimed at curing patient via catharsis) Parapraxis: behavioral hints including slips of the tongue. Later measures of personality inspired by freud. If a person is presented with an ambiguous stimulus to interpret, the person will project her personality onto the stimulus. Response analyzed as a way of assessing personality. Person is shown 31 drawings of ambiguous situations. Asked to tell a story about the picture.
