PSYC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unearth, Personal Distress, Jet Lag
Document Summary
Social psychology-focus on the situation rather than the person. Personality-characcteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting that is somewhat consistent over time and across situations. Freud and psychoanalytic approaches to personality levels of awareness. Preconscious-contains info that is not in current awareness, but can be accessed w/ little effort. Unconscious-part of mind we cannot freely access, fears: 3 personality structures. Ego-direct contact with reality, primarily within conscious, think then act. Superego-morality principle, moral compass, no you don"t that"s evil: defense mechanisms. Understand theory and how develop, don"t need to know specific mechanisms: psychosexual stage theory. Understand gen concepts, stage theory, erogenous zones, and fixations, don"t know specific stages: healthy/unhealthy personalities, evaluation of freud"s theory. Defense mechanisms protect self-esteem rather than disguise sexual and aggressive impulses. Humanistic theories of personality: maslow- self-actualized or self-transcending" individuals, open n spontaneous, loving n caring, secure in who they are, problem focused rather than self focused, rogers. Person centered perspective-people naturally grow under right conditions.
