Exam 1 Study Guide Fall 2024 PDF

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This document is a study guide for an exam on personality theories, including chapters on personality, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. It covers topics like personality definitions, assessment methods, psychosexual stages, and Jungian archetypes.

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**Chapter 1. Personality: What it is and why you should care.** - What is the definition of personality? - Summarize the research and class discussions on the following questions: - Do we represent our real selves on social media? - What selfie: What's it all about? -...

**Chapter 1. Personality: What it is and why you should care.** - What is the definition of personality? - Summarize the research and class discussions on the following questions: - Do we represent our real selves on social media? - What selfie: What's it all about? - How does social media influence our personality's? - How does our personality influence the use of social media? - Who are the trolls? - How does culture influence personality? - Describe the differences between Western societies (e.g. US) and Eastern (Asian) societies in terms of personality type? - What aspects of Buddhism or Hinduism may impact personality? - What aspects of American culture may impact personality? - Describe and explain the following methods of assessment: - Self-report - MMPI: What's it all about? - Projective techniques - Rorschach Inkblot Test: What's it all about? - Clinical interviews - Behavioral assessment procedures - Thought and experience sampling procedures - What are the advantages and disadvantages of online test administration? **Chapter 2. Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis** - What is psychoanalysis? - What was Freud's childhood like? How does that influence his personality theory? - What happened with Freud and cocaine? - How did Freud describe childhood sexual abuse? Fantasy or fiction? - Describe Freud's sex life and how it was connected to his personality theory. - What happened when Freud came to America? - What happened to Freud during World War II? How did he die? - Explain instincts. Why are they so important to Freud? - Life instinct - Death instinct - Describe the following levels of personality, and how they interact. - Id - Ego - Superego - What is anxiety? - Describe each of these types of anxiety. Give an example of each. - Reality anxiety - Neurotic anxiety - Moral anxiety - What are defense mechanisms? Describe the following defense mechanisms and give an example: - Repression - Denial - Reaction formation - Projection - Regression - Rationalization - Displacement - Sublimation - Describe Freud's psychosexual stages, and what takes place at each. Explain what can happen under different circumstances in each stage: - Oral - Anal - Phallic - The latency period - The genital stage - What is the free association technique? How does it work? - What was Freud's theory on dreams? Describe manifest content versus latent content. **Chapter 3. Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology** - How did Jung's theories differ from Freud? What was their relationship like? - Describe Jung's early life, and how it impacted his personality theory. - Why did Jung put so much attention into his dreams? What was his technique for dream analysis? What did dreams mean? - What was the epiphany that caused Jung to study medicine? - Describe Jung's neurotic episode and what happened when he overcame it. - Describe Jung's neurotic behavior and his sex life. Why do you think he behaved in these ways? - Describe psychic energy and explain these three principles related to it: - Principle of opposites - Principle of equivalence - Principle of entropy - Describe the following aspects of personality as it relates to Jung: - The ego - Extraversion - Introversion - Describe the following four functions. How are they grouped together and why? - Sensing - Intuiting - Thinking - Feeling - Describe Jung's eight psychological types. - What was the personal unconscious? What was stored there? - What are complexes? - What is the collective unconscious? - What are archetypes? - Describe the following archetypes and give an example of each. - The persona archetype - The anima and animus archetypes - The shadow-archetype - The self-archetype - Describe Jung's developmental stages. What happens at each stage? - Childhood - Puberty to young adulthood - Middle age - What is individuation? How do you become self-fulfilled? - What is the word association test? How does it work to uncover unconscious?

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