Theories of Personality - Review for Test One

 

Chapter 1 and 2

Persona

Reliability

Divergent validity

Convergent validity

Nature of theories

Freudian theory's basic two motives

The seduction theory

The nature of the unconscious

Topographical model

Structural model

The role of anxiety in defenses

Pleasure principle

Primary process

Reality principle

Secondary process

Characteristics of the super-ego

Definitions of basic defenses: repression, undoing and isolation, rationalization, displacement, reaction formation, projection, regression, sublimation

Freud's definition of maturity

Freud's view of dreams

Free-association

Transference

 

Chapter 4

 

Jung's view of the unconscious

A complex

Collective unconscious

Archetypes

Shadow

Anima

Animus

Hero

Wise old man

Earthmother

The self

Introversion

Extraversion

Rational functions

Irrational functions

Word association test

Myers-Briggs Type indicator

Purpose of Jung's dream interpretation method

 

Chapter 3

 

Why did Adler break with Freud?

Adler's view of the unconscious

Adler's view of women

Striving for superiority

Social interest

Motivation of healthy people

Fictions

Theory of neurosis

Safeguarding tendencies

 

Chapter 5

Kleinian emphasis

Good breast

Bad breast

Klein's two positions of the infant

Depressive position

Mahler's basic theory

Kohut's emphasis

Kernberg's theory of splitting

Kleinian therapy

Chapter 6

Horney's criticisms of Freud

2 basic motives of people

morbid dependency

moving against others, toward others, away from others

basic anxiety

real self

idealized self

origin of psychological differences between men and women

Lyon and Greenberg's research

Hypercompetiveness research

Chapter 8

Sullivan's definition of personality

Definitions and characteristics of tensions

Interpersonal needs

Uncanny emotion

Good-me personification

Participant observation

Dynamism

Self-system

How is anxiety different from other tensions?

Development of intimacy

Expressions of malevolence

Personality change

Syntaxic

Parataxic

Prototaxic

Chapter 9

Ego Identity

How did Erikson change Freud's theory

Crisis

Epigenetic principle

What are the stages of identity formation?

Stagnation

Identity foreclosure

Role repudiation

Moratorium

Psychosocial crises of Erikson's 8 stages