PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Feminine Psychology, Oral Stage, Hans Eysenck
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Standardized questionnaires, typically multiple-choice or true false items: minnesota multiphastic personality inventory- (mmpi) Most widely researched and clinically used self-report personality test: 10 scales of mmpi- hypochondrias, depression, Pleasure principle- maximize pleasure, minimize pain (spoiled child, i want : superego- standards of right and wrong. Morality principle. (parent, yes or no : 2 parts- conscience- punitive, negative and critical part. He overcomes this by spending time with his father and forms his superego to keep feelings at bay: girl electra complex- feels incomplete because she doesn"t have a penis; she wants to sexually posses her father. Penis envy; weaker superego (b/c she didn"t have castration anxiety, she is weaker: latency stage- 6-puberty, repression of sexual urges, genial stage- get out of the house. Neo-freudian theorists: adler"s individual psychology, each of us is born with a sense of inferiority, striving for superiority c. Inadequate evidence c: sexism, lack of cross-cultural support- don"t see a lot of these concepts in non-western society.
