Psychology 101: Personality Latest 2024 Graded A+

Psychology 101: Personality Latest 2024 Graded A+ Personality the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual Psychosexual Development the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage Psychoanalytic Theory A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior Oral Stage the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development Anal Stage the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned Phallic Stage the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasure Latency Stage the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities Genital Stage the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence Oedipal Complex boys love their mothers romantically and want want to get rid of their fathers Electra Complex girls love their fathers romantically and want to get rid of their mothers Id primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity Ego your consciousness of your own identity Superego the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations, morality Repression the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious Regression a defense mechanism