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Dynamic Model of Adjustment

Motivation Frustration

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Conflict

Anxiety

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Tension

Tension

reduction

Effects

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Motivation Frustration

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Conflict

Anxiety

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Tension

Tension

reduction

Effects

+/-

Motivation=goal directed behavior . . . All behavior is motivated.


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Motivation Frustration/

Conflict

Anxiety/

Tension

Tensionreduction

Effects+/-

Frustration=something that interferes with your motivation

(goal directed behavior)

Conflict=a decision must be made to attain your goal.

Three types:

Approach - Approach = both alternatives are +.

(chocolate ice cream or cake)Avoidance - Avoidance = both alternatives are -.

(Fold the laundry or empty the dish washer.)

Likely to result in decision by indecision.

Approach - Avoidance = each alternative is +/-,+/-.


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Conflict

Anxiety/

Tension

Tensionreduction

Effects+/-

A.K.A. stress. Frustration and Conflicts are stressors, anxiety

and/or tension is the emotional/physiological experience ofstress. On the one hand we have the Fight or Flight

Syndrome, and the ability to cope, or behave effectively

on the other. Anxiety is not fear, but rather an experience of

immobility due to external threat.


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Conflict

Anxiety/

Tension

Tensionreduction

Effects+/-

1. Deal with the frustration/conflict (stressor) that is interfering

with our motivation and creating anxiety/tension (stress).

Normal / Healthy Adjustments


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Conflict

Anxiety/

Tension

Tensionreduction

Effects+/-



2. Adjustment mechanisms/ego defense mechanisms.

Strategies intended to temporarily remove the stress.

3. Reassess the motivation (goal). Testing self-concept

against reality (adequacy vs. accuracy).


Adjustment mechanism


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Conflict

Anxiety/

Tension

Tensionreduction

Effects+/-




2. Adjustment mechanisms/ego defense mechanisms.

Strategies intended to temporarily remove the stress.

3. Reassess the motivation (goal).


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Conflict

Anxiety/

Tension

Tensionreduction

Effects+/-

A neurosis is an inflexible adjustment that we employ to reduce stress,

but does not deal with the frustration/conflict creating the stress. In

fact, a neurosis has a tendency to create is own universe separate

from the original stressor, and becomes an additional impediment to

our motivation. Typically, the neurosis becomes the problem of ourfocus, hence avoiding or losing sight of the genesis of our issues.

Adjustment mechanisms may become neurotic behaviors when they

are employed habitually.

Neurotic Adjustment


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Adjustment Mechanisms:

1. Repression -- selective forgetting.

2. Denial -- rationalization, placing illogical blame

3. Displacement -- taking frustrations out on neutral object.4. Reaction Formation -- behavior predicated on previous

experience.

5. Intellectualization -- escaping anxiety through intellectual

language.

6. Identification -- associations with others helps to reduce

anxiety.7. Regression -- reverting to immature behavior.

8. Rationalization -- making excuses for behavior.

9. Sublimation -- antisocial psychic impulses and convert

that energy into socially approve activities. Freud

believed that sublimination was the foundation ofcivilization.

10. Projection -- project our own faults onto to others. I

just cant stand hypocrites.

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