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Gender Identity
Knowledge of being male or female - Usually consistent with biological sex, but not always When it's not consistent - Presents usually around age 2 or 3 - More common for biological male to feel female - Does not mean you're gay! TERM 2
Sexual Orientation
DEFINITION 2 Who you are attracted to sexually and romantically - Nature and nurture TERM 3
Development of Sexual Orientation
DEFINITION 3 Theories - Psychoanalytic- Everyone starts out bisexual, but depending on interaction with parents, a kid's sexuality may change - Not scientifically confirmed - Social learning- reinforcement, punishment and modeling - Suggests important of role models in a kid's sexuality - Social constructionist- idea that we like to categorize things and society creates categories and we have to classify ourselves and other people - Biological- not a gene for sexuality that explains the while thing TERM 4
Id
DEFINITION 4
- What you have when you're born - Irrational, doesn't think about things logically - Impulsive, source of libido - Wants immediate gratification (pleasure principle_ - Completely unconscious TERM 5
Ego
DEFINITION 5 "Self", parents can't always do things for babies immediately
- Thinking, reasoning, planning - Mediator between id, superego, and external reality - Happens around 1 year old, fully function by 3, develops through early adolescence - The compromiser/mediator
Superego
The conscience - Ability to tell right and wrong - Ideal moral construct - Modeled loosely on parents' morals - Around 3- years old - Remains child like - 3-6 year old version of what you perceive your parents morals to be - Irrational TERM 7
Repression
DEFINITION 7 Unacceptable thoughts or feelings are pushed into the unconscious, where they lurk and leak back - Imperfect - Freud didn't think this could last long, short-term fix - Ex. You go to a new dentist and have four cavities filled. The giant needle is inserted and you have no memory of it but the next time you go to the dentist, it all rushes back TERM 8
Displacement
DEFINITION 8 Unacceptable thoughts or feelings find new outlets - Not necessarily positive outlets - Always inappropriate - Never respond to the source of the problem - Ex. Getting in a fight with Amy after getting F's on two exams TERM 9
Reaction Formation
DEFINITION 9 Unacceptable thoughts or feelings are reversed - From hate to love or love to hate - Reversal of a behavior based on a feeling - Ex. Saying "Annie Oot is my best friend" when I really hate her guts and hope she dies - Ex. Having a fear of flying and deciding to be a pilot TERM 10
Rationalization
DEFINITION 10 Unacceptable thoughts or feelings are reinterpreted or rewritten - When you deeply want something, don't get it, so you rationalize it - Ex. You graduate and you're offered your dream job but ... you don't get it, so you say "you know what, that job sucked anyway and I never really wanted it"
Anal
- 1-3 years - Libido is in the anus or rectum - Baby is gratified by attaining or excreting waste - Overindulged: potty training that's too harsh, too early, too inflexible - Fixation- anal- retentive adult - Underindulged: training too lenient, too late, too flexible - Fixation- anal expulsive TERM 17
Phallic
DEFINITION 17
- 3-6 years - Libido is in the genitals, but the focus of the attention is towards the opposite sex parent - Pivotal stage, how this plays out could determine how the superego will be
- Overindulged- person will retain attraction to opposite sex parent TERM 18
Oedipus Conflict
DEFINITION 18
- Dude married his mother and killed his father - Castration anxiety- Little boy attracted to female figure, afraid father figure will castrate them if he finds out TERM 19
Electra Conflict
DEFINITION 19
- Penis envy - Little girl attracted to father, doesn't have castration anxiety - Already feels castrated and is angry about it - Mad at mom for sending her into the world so ill equipped TERM 20
Latency
DEFINITION 20
- 6-puberty - The libido is submerged - Somehow you can be fixated here - Don't know how - Fixation- very withdrawn - Superego and ego continue to develop - Rational thinking improves and they get a sense of morality
Genital
- Post puberty - Libido is again in the genitals - Attraction for appropriate partners, not parents - No more fixation TERM 22
Day Residue
DEFINITION 22 No big deal, nothing or importance TERM 23
Hans
DEFINITION 23 Little boy afraid of horses because he thought they'd bite his "whiddler" off. Hans had a dream where a little giraffe was sat on by a bigger giraffe and crushed it. Freud thought Hans dreamt this because he was afraid his dad would castrate him and the small giraffe was his attraction to his mother TERM 24
Manifest Content
DEFINITION 24 What the dream is about - Hans's dream is just about giraffes and horses TERM 25
Latent Content
DEFINITION 25 Hidden content, the message from the unconscious to the conscious - Hans's dream expressing castration fear
