Theories of Personality; Psychodynamics

14 important questions on Theories of Personality; Psychodynamics

Pleasure centers on the mouth; sucking, biting, chewing

Oral

A phase of dormant sexual feelings

Latency

During the Phallic stage, the __ emerges for males

Oedipus Complex
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Males developing unconscious sexual desires for their mothers and jealousy for their fathers

Oedipus Complex

During the Phallic stage, the __ emerges for females

Electra Complex

Reducing anxiety by disguising threatening impulses as something else

Defense Mechanisms

Retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

Repgression

Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites

Reaction Formation

Disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

Projection

Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions

Rationalization

Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

Displacement

Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities

Denial

Use ambiguous shapes to uncover unconscious thoughts

Projective Tests

Projective test where people interpret inkblots (not reliable or valid)

Rorschach Inkblot Test

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