PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unconditional Positive Regard, Castration Anxiety, Trait Theory

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: John Bickford

Document Summary

Psychoanalytic theory: freud"s theory that unconscious forces act as determinants of personality. Id: the raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives related to hunger,sex, aggression, and irrational impulses. Ego: the part of the personality that provides a buffer between the id and the outside world. Superego: according to frued, the nal personality structure to develop; it represents the rights and wrongs of society as handed down by a person"s parents, teachers, and other important gures. Oral fixation: produces an adult who is unusually interested in oral activities-eating, talking, or smoking- or who shows symbolic sorts of oral interests such as being bitingly sarcastic or very gullible swallowing everything . Anal fixation: results in unusual rigidity, orderliness, punctuality-or extreme disorderliness or sloppiness- in adulthood. Oedipal con ict: a child"s sexual interest in his or her opposite-sex parent, typically resolved though identi cation with the same-sex parent. (castration.