PSY 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rorschach Test, Karen Horney, Fortean Times

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Chapter 13: personality: psychodynamic theory, freud"s unconscious mind. Freud: views human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and the unconscious mind, including associated motives and conflicts. Personality development: personality form during life"s first years, and children pass through a series of psychosexual stages. Defence mechanisms: the ego"s protective method of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality: repression: the basic defence mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feel- ings and memories from the unconscious, repression enables other defence mechanism: the 6. 1) regression: retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, some psychic energy remains fixated. 2)reaction formation: switching unacceptable impulses to their opposites, ex: if a person is repressing anger, displays exaggerated friendliness. 3) projection: disguising one"s own threatening impulses by attributing them to an- other. 4)rationalization: offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one"s actions. 5)displacement: shifting sexual or aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatening object/person.