01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Thematic Apperception Test, Offender Profiling, Heredity

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Oral (birth to 1 yrs): derives intense psychosexual pleasure from stimulation of the mouth, particularly while sucking at the mother"s breast fixation: lasting concerns w/ dependence and independence; pleasure from eating, drinking, and other oral activities. Anal (1 to 3 yrs): get psychosexual pleasure from the sensations of bowel movements fixation: orderliness or sloppiness issues, stinginess or wastefulness, stubbornness. Phallic (3 to 5/6 yrs): children begin to play with genitals, become sexually attracted to the opposite-sex parent fixation: difficulty feeling closeness, males fear castration and females penis envy. Latent (5/6 to puberty): suppress psychosexual interest, play mostly with peers of own sex. Defense mechanisms against anxiety-the ego defends itself by relegating unpleasant thoughts and impulses to the unconscious mind (descriptions developed by anna freud, Karen horney, a neo-freudian: neo-freudians-psychologists that kept parts of freud"s theory while modifying other aspects, forerunner to later feminist thinkers, emphasized the detrimental effects a child might feel from parental neglect or indifference.