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What is the primary goal of individuation in the context of personality dynamics?
How does Jung differentiate between progression and regression?
Which function in Jung's theory focuses on logical intellectual activity?
What determines whether a person exhibits extraversion or introversion?
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What characterizes the feeling function according to Jung?
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Which of the following pairs represent Jung's principal psychological functions?
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What does adaptation to the outside world primarily rely on?
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Which attitude is primarily influenced by external surroundings?
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What role did listening play in Freud's method of understanding human behavior?
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How did the Latin word 'persona' relate to the concept of personality?
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What does a useful theory primarily do according to the content?
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Which of the following is NOT a quality of a useful theory?
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What distinguishes descriptive research from hypothesis testing?
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What does the term 'falsifiable' mean in the context of a theory?
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What is meant by the term 'parsimony' in the context of a theory?
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Who is recognized as the father of the trait paradigm?
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What does Carl Jung's irrational/perceiving function refer to?
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At what stage of development do individuals start to recognize their independence as separate individuals?
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According to Jung, what is a major development that occurs during middle life?
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What is Carl Jung's perspective on death in terms of mental health?
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What phase of life does Jung not emphasize significantly in his theory?
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Which of the following statements best summarizes Jung's view on freedom and determinism?
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In which stage do major responsibilities such as caring for children and aging parents arise?
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What aspect does Jung prioritize in his understanding of the unconscious?
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What does early recollection typically reflect in an individual?
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What is emphasized in Adler's theory regarding psychological issues?
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Which of the following concepts does Jung's theory primarily explore?
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What role did Sigmund Freud play in Carl Jung's early career?
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What aspect of Jung's early life contributed to his distrust of women?
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What was one of Jung's main interests during his studies in psychiatry?
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Which psychological conflict did Jung emphasize in his theories?
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What significant position did Jung hold in the early psychoanalytic community?
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What is the concept of striving for superiority based on?
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What term refers to the expectations of the future according to Adler's theory?
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How does Adler describe the relationship between an individual's feelings of inferiority and their overall personality?
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What is the significance of social interest in Adler's psychology?
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In Adlerian psychology, what does 'style of life' refer to?
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What is identified as a common characteristic of neurotics in Adler's theory?
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What describes the impact of underdeveloped social interest as per Adler's view on maladjustments?
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Study Notes
Sigmund Freud
- Freud combined philosophical speculation with a primitive scientific approach to understand human behavior.
- Freud used his patients to understand what is hidden behind their psyche by listening to them and identifying why they behave the way they do.
Personality
- Personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior.
- Personality is like a mask that gives us character.
- Gordon Allport is known as the father of the trait paradigm.
Theory
- A theory is a set of related assumptions that allows scientists to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypotheses.
- A useful theory:
- generates research
- is falsifiable
- organizes data
- guides action
- is internally consistent
- is parsimonious
- An established theory is true for the majority of people, not just some.
Generates Research
- This is the ability of a theory to stimulate and guide further research.
- A theory will generate two different kinds of research - descriptive and hypothesis testing.
- Descriptive research describes behavior or phenomena.
- Hypothesis testing is inferential research that gives answers to certain questions and provides possible solutions to what we are investigating.
Falsifiable
- This is the theory's ability to be confirmed or disconfirmed.
- A theory must be precise enough to suggest research that may either support or fail to support its major tenets.
- A theory that is not falsifiable cannot be used to support a certain claim.
Organizes Data
- Theory of personality must be capable of integrating what is currently known about human behavior and personality development.
- It must balance all the archetypes represented by the symbol of Yin and Yang.
Dynamics of Personality
- Causality and Teleology: Past influences the present and the future influences the present.
- Progression and Regression:
- Adaptation to the outside world involves the forward flow of psychic energy and is called progression.
- Adaptation to the inner world relies on a backward flow of psychic energy and is called regression.
- Jung believed that the balance of these two influences one's behavior.
Psychological Types
- Union of Two Attitudes: these include extraversion and introversion.
- Four Functions:
- Thinking
- Feeling
- Sensation
- Intuition
- Attitudes are the way we act and react.
Extraversion
- This is an attitude distinguished by the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective and away from the subjective.
- Extraverts are influenced by surroundings rather than the inner world.
Introversion
- This is the inward flow of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective.
- Introverts are influenced by the inner world rather than surroundings.
Carl Jung Attitude Type
- Where do you place your attention and get your energy? Do you like to spend time in the outer world of people and things (extraversion), or in your inner world of ideas and images (introversion)?
Functions
- Thinking is logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas and involves meaning and understanding.
- Feeling describes the process of evaluating an idea or event based on one's emotion.
Carl Jung Principal Psychological Function
- Rational and Judging Function/Decision Making Function: Thinking/ Feeling
- Do you like to put more weight on objective principles and impersonal facts (thinking) or do you put more weight on personal concerns and the people involved (feeling)?
Sensation
- This receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness.
Intuition
- This is perception beyond the workings of consciousness.
Alfred Adler: Individual Psychology
- Striving Force as Compensation: People strive for superiority or success as a means of compensation for feelings of inferiority or weakness.
- Physical deficiencies ignite feelings of inferiority. This is because people by their nature, possess an innate tendency towards completion or wholeness.
People’s Subjective Perceptions Shape Their Behavior and Personality
- Fictionalism is the expectations of the future.
- Physical inferiorities
Personality is Unified and Self-Consistent
- Adler chose the term individual psychology to emphasize that each person is unique and indivisible.
- The disturbance of one part of the body (feeling of inferiority) cannot be viewed in isolation, it affects the entire person. The deficient organ expresses the direction of the individual's goal, a condition known as “organ dialect.”
The Value of All Human Activity Must Be Seen From the Viewpoint of Social Interest
- "Social feeling" or "community feeling" is a more accurate term than "social interest".
- Social interest is the natural condition of the human species and the adhesive that binds society together.
The Self-Consistent Personality Structure Develops Into a Person's Style of Life or Lifestyle
- The self-consistent personality structure develops into a personal style of life.
- Style of life is the term Adler used to refer to the flavor of a person's life.
- It includes a person's goal, self-concept feelings for others, and attitude toward the world.
Style of Life is Molded by People's Creative Power - The Power to Choose, Be Responsible, Be Free for the Sake of Your Development
- Adler believed that people are empowered with the freedom to create their own style of life.
- People are responsible for who they are and how they behave.
Abnormal Development
- One factor underlying all types of maladjustments is underdeveloped social interest.
- Neurotics tend to:
- set their goals too high
- live in their own private world
- have a rigid and dogmatic style of life.
- Other factors include:
- exaggerated physical deficiencies
- a pampered style of life, which is at the heart of neurosis
- a neglected style of life
Safeguarding Tendencies
- Adler believed that people create patterns of behavior to protect their exaggerated sense of self-esteem against public disgrace.
Early Recollection
- Early recollections are always consistent with people's present style of life and their subjective account of these experiences.
Dreams
- Dreams cannot foretell the future, they can provide clues for solving future problems. "Déjà vu" frequently occurs.
Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy results from a lack of courage and exaggerated feelings of inferiority.
- Therapists help patients enhance their courage and encourage social interests.
Adler's Theory
- Freedom vs. Interest: Interest
- Heredity vs. Environment: Environment
- Uniqueness vs. Universality: Uniqueness
- Optimism vs. Pessimism: Optimism
- Causality vs. Teleology: Teleology
- Consciousness vs. Unconsciousness: Middleground
Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology
Biography
- Carl Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswill, Switzerland.
- He was the second child of Johann Paul Jung and Emelie Preiswork Jung.
- At the age of three, Jung’s parents had a brief separation, leaving him with a deep distrust of women and love.
- As a child, he was an introvert.
- During his childhood years, Jung developed two aspects of his personality: introvert and extravert.
- In 1895, Jung began to study at the University of Basel and earned a degree in medicine, specifically psychiatry.
- During his studies, he lived with his maternal relatives, who introduced him to séances, solidifying his belief in the ancient unconscious and using psychology to study paranormal activity.
- In 1900, Jung became a psychiatric assistant to Eugene Bleuler at Burgholtzi Mental Hospital in Zurich, possibly the most prestigious psychiatric teaching hospital in the world at that time.
- In 1903, he returned to Switzerland and married Emma Rauschenbach.
- While still studying, Jung was fascinated by the works of Freud, specifically “The Interpretation of Dreams,” and in 1906, he began correspondence with Sigmund Freud.
- Freud became a significant person in Jung’s life. He became his mentor, and they had a father-son relationship to the point that Freud saw him as a successor and appointed him the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
- Due to some disagreements, Jung broke his relationship with Freud, which led to his feeling isolated and lonely.
Carl Jung Principal Psychological Function
- Irrational/Perceiving Function/Information Gathering Function: Sensation/Intuition
- Do you pay more attention to information that comes in through your five senses (sensing), or do you pay more attention to patterns and possibilities that you see in the information you receive (intuition)?
Stages of Development
- Carl Jung focused on “the second half of life,” or midlife, which is roughly 35-40 years old. According to him, we could find meaning in our declining years.
Childhood Stage
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Anarchic Phase: chaotic and sporadic consciousness.
- Primitive images, incapable of being accurately verbalized.
- You cannot communicate still what you’re thinking.
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Monarchic Phase: development of the ego and the beginning of logical and verbal thinking.
- You now have consciousness and you start to think like describing things, slowly communicate through language.
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Dualistic Phase: first person and are aware of their existence as separate individuals.
- This could happen roughly 7-8 years old and involves gaining independence.
Youth
- Puberty to mid-life.
- Young people try to gain psychic and physical independence from their parents, find a mate, raise a family, and make a place in the world.
- Problem-free childhood is gone.
Middle Life (Most Important)
- Look forward to the future with hope and anticipation, surrender the lifestyle of youth, and discover new meaning in mid-life.
- Major changes happen and responsibilities come like taking care of your children and aging parents.
Old Age (Last Stage)
- Death is the goal of life.
- Life can be fulfilling only when death is sought in life.
- Most of Jung’s patients were old people
- To cure them is to teach them to accept and have a new symbol for death. It should not be feared because everyone will die at the end.
Carl Jung (View of Humanity)
- Freedom vs. Determinism: Determinism
- Heredity vs. Environment: Heredity
- Uniqueness vs. Universality: Universality
- Optimism vs. Pessimism: Middleground
- Conscious vs. Unconscious: Unconscious
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