PSYCH 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Agreeableness, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
29 Jun 2018
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PSYCH 7A - Lecture 17 - Personality (cont.)
Repression
●The process of keeping anxiety-inducing thoughts, feelings, and memories out of
consciousness, particularly unacceptable id impulses
●The ego restrains the unacceptable impulse from being expressed
Regression
●Regression – when anxiety causes people to use coping strategies that reflect the stages
in which they are fixated
●EXAMPLES
○Oral stage – smoke more cigarettes or eat or drink more when stressed at work
(adult), thumb-sucking (child)
○Anal stage – become even more compulsive than normal
○The stronger a fixation, the more likely the person is to regress (under stress) to
the mode of functioning that characterizes that stage
●Regression often represents a return to a way of relating to the world that was
previously very effective.
Reaction Formation – to guard against the release of an unacceptable impulse, we emphasize
the opposite of that impulse
Projection
●Projection – anxiety is reduced by attributing your own unacceptable impulses, wishes,
and desires to someone else.
●Projection provides a way to hide your knowledge of an unacceptable aspect of yourself,
while still expressing the unacceptable quality
●EXAMPLE: feelings of hostility toward others
○Remove feelings from awareness through repression
○Feelings are still there trying to gain expression
○You project the feelings by developing the belief that others hate you
Displacement
●Displacement – shifting an impulse from one target to another target that is
psychologically more acceptable (e.g. less threatening) than the one that aroused the
feelings
●Substituting a less threatening target for the original one reduces anxiety
●EXAMPLES:
○Angry at boss – you displace your anger by kicking your dog
○Angry at professor – you displace your anger by taking it out your partner
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Psych 7a - lecture 17 - personality (cont. ) The process of keeping anxiety-inducing thoughts, feelings, and memories out of consciousness, particularly unacceptable id impulses. The ego restrains the unacceptable impulse from being expressed. Regression when anxiety causes people to use coping strategies that reflect the stages in which they are fixated. Oral stage smoke more cigarettes or eat or drink more when stressed at work (adult), thumb-sucking (child) Anal stage become even more compulsive than normal. The stronger a fixation, the more likely the person is to regress (under stress) to the mode of functioning that characterizes that stage. Regression often represents a return to a way of relating to the world that was previously very effective. Reaction formation to guard against the release of an unacceptable impulse, we emphasize the opposite of that impulse. Projection anxiety is reduced by attributing your own unacceptable impulses, wishes, and desires to someone else.
