Psychology test 1
This is a review for our upcoming test on theories and I added stuff about feral children.
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- Secondary Trait
- attitudes or preferences, only appear in certain situation or circumstances (ex: phobias)
- Oxana Malaya- Ukranian dog girl
- found in 1991, age 8, found in dog kennels outside her home, dog mannerisms, abandoned by mother
- Classes of feral children
- 1. the children who wander off and live in the wild on their own. 2. the children who are nutured by animals in the wild.
- Denial
- when a person rejects the truth about something unpleasant that has happened
- Projection
- when a person's thoughts or feelings that embarrass them are projected onto someone else
- Clasical conditioning
- pavlov's dog experiment
- Anal Expulsive
- opposite of anal retentive, messy and disorganized
- Anal Stage
- age 2-3, when toilet training and controlling bodily wastes are key issues, learning to be potty trained.....future: Anal retentive or anal expulsive
- Anal Retentive
- holding everything in and obsessive about neatness and cleanliness
- The Id
- your primary or primitive drives, what makes you want something you cannot have, has no regard for reality or consequences (ex: your hungry no money the Id would tell you to steal)
- who developed the five factor theory
- McCrae & Costa
- Bandura experimetn
- Bobo doll, 4 rooms: 1,corner; couldn't play with bobo 2.attack dolls 3.play with toys with adult 4. no adults; kids were allowed to do whatever
- Latency Stage
- nonsexual, involved in asexual activities like sports and have same sex friends
- Electra Complex
- girls compete with their mother for the father's attention
- Defense Mechanisms
- the ego, in attempt to suppress the unacceptable needs of the id, has developed a system the Ffreud refers to as, Defense Mechanisms, These stragey deny and distort reality, which in some instances guard agianst anxiety.
- Repression
- when an unwanted memory or emotion is thwarted by the person
- Reaction Formation
- when an emotion creates unconscious anxiety and is flippe dinto its opposite in consciousness
- openness
- open to experience versus Implusiveness
- The Ego
- balances the fantasies of the Id agianst realities of the real world. It controls your impulses, tries to avoid pain and disleasing things, SELF-PRESERVATION(EX: you don't steal because its agianst society)
- Victor the wild boy
- captured in janurary 1800, estimated to be about 10 years old, his desires did not go beyond physical needs, he could not speak or understand human language, he preffered raw food and ripped off any clothes that were put on him, "incurable idiot", never learned speech, made mini progress in social behavior, put through numerous tests psych and physic
- Extroversion
- talkative/outgoing or silent/shy
- Oral Stage
- first years of life, babies experience the world through mouths....future: adults seek gratification in smoking, overeating, or nail biting.
- feral children
- a child who lived in isolation starting at a very young age and there by has remained unaware of human behavior and language
- Structural Theory
- consists of 3 theoretical provinces of the mind, The Id, The Ego, The Superego
- Regression
- when someone (reverts) to a former stage of psychological development
- 3 trait levels
- 1. Cardinal trait 2. Central T 3. Secondary T
- Sigmund Frued created what other theory besides psychosexual?
- structural theory
- Learning Theory
- in psychology and education, a learning theory is an attempt to describe how people and animals learn
- Freud's Psychosexual stage theory
- Oral, Anal, Oedipal(Phallic), Latency, Genital stages
- Gorden Allport
- father of trait personality, found 4,000 words in the dictionary describing personality traits, determined that there are 3 levels of personality traits
- Displacement
- when someone focuses their attention and emotions upon objects, animals or other people
- Idiocy before isolation(nature)
- language defienct, untidiness, unattached to other, ani al-like sounds, ingesting "nasties", insensirity to temperature
- Agreeableness
- good nature/cooperative/friendly relationships or irritable/abrasive/hostileness
- Name the five factors
- Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Nuaratiscism,
- Five factor theory Adulthood
- older adults lower in N,E,O and higher A,C than adolescents and college kids (could be generation)
- Neuroticism
- worriers/complainers/high anxiety
- Five factor theory Childhood
- RETURN AND REDO
- Defense Mechanisms (LIST)
- Represssion, Projection, Displacement, Reaction Formation, Regression, & Denial
- Conscientiousness
- Persevering or quick to quit
- Nurture
- seems improbable that chance would lead to so many cases, children who have mental deficiences would have a very difficult time surviving in the wild.
- Genital Stage
- occurs during puberty, interested in opposite sex, when stages complete you should end up a caring and warm person
- Central Trait
- Most common and forms the basics of personality (ex: smart, funny, and shy)
- Can the factors be inherited
- largely inherited
- The Superego
- internalized moral values, prohibitions, and ideals of the person. The repository of your ego ideal. where your conscience "lives", is responsible for the feeling of guilt
- Oedipal (Phallic) Stage
- ages 3-6, unconsciously wishes for the parent of the opposite sex and wants to get rid of the same sex parent,
- Cardinal Trait
- dominates a persons life, but is extremely rare. It would be a persons most obvious trait
- Oedipus Complex
- named after the greek legend of king oedipus. Boys are unconsciously attracted to their mothers
- significance of feral children
- entertainment, development of behaviorism and behavior modification, conclusions about sensitive periods, provide for an experiment that can never be ethically planned on conducted by scientists