PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Overdetermination, Face Validity, Toilet Training
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Freud principle of overdetermination, principle of psychic determinism, characteristics of. Funder"s suggestion regarding the problem of personality measurement. *psychology theme of phallic stage is what it means to male or female: electro complex: female version. More complicated and much less clear than oedipus complex. Girl loves mom, she realizes that she and her mom do not have phallus, starts to blame mom for this castration becomes erotic in nature. Freud considered penis envy to be the female counterpart to castration anxiety. Intimacy vs. isolation: as young adults, we are motivated to merge our identities with another person. If there is no personal growth, then there is this quality known as stagnation. Integrity vs. despair (late adulthood: failure to resolve all the previous crises is referred to as despair , selflessness, bitterness, people feel incomplete. Funder"s second law: no perfect ways to measure personality, only clues, use as estimates, clues are ambiguous.
