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Personality

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

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Free association

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In psychoanalysis
A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxed and says whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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Psychoanalysis

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Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
Used to treat psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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Unconscious

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According to Freud
A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts wishes feelings and memories
Contemporary psych says it’s information processing or which we are unaware

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Id

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A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that according to Freud arrives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
Operates on pleasure principle immediate gratification

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Ego

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The largely conscious part of personality that according to Freud mediated Among the demands of the id superego and reality
Operates on reality principle
Realistically being pleasure than pain

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Superego

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Part of personality that (Freud) represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations

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Psychosexual stages

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The childhood development (oral,anal, phallic,latency, genital) during which according to Freud the id pleasure seeking energy focus on distinct erogenous zones

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Oedipus complex

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Freud, a boys sexual desires toward mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Identification

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Process (Freud) children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos

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Fixation

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(Freud) a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were resolved with

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Defense mechanisms

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In psychoanalysis, the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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Repression

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In psychoanalysis, defense mechanism that vanishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories Fromm consciousness

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Regression

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Psychoanalytical defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

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Reaction formation

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. This people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety arousing unconscious feelings

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Projection

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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Rationalization

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for ones actions

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Displacement

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet

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Sublimation

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities

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Denial

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Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even perceive painful realities

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Collective unconscious

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Carl jungs concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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Projective test

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A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics

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Thematic apperception test (TAT)

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A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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Rorschach ink blot test

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The most widely used projective test, a set of ten ink blots which seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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Terror management theory

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A theory of death related anxiety, explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

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Self actualization

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(Maslow) one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem achieved
The motivation to fulfill ones potential

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Unconditional positive regard

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(Rogers) an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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Self concept

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question who am I

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Trait

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A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports

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Personality inventory

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A questionnaire ( t or f) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors used to assess selected personality traits

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Minnesota multiphase personality inventory (MMPI)

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The most widely used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, test now used for many other screening purposes

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Empirically derived test

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A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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Social cognitive perspective

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Views behavior as influences by the interaction between peoples traits and their social context

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Reciprocal determinism

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition and environment

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Personal control

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The extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless

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External locus of control

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The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate

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Internal locus of control

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The perception that you control your own fate

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Positive psychology

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The scientific study of optimal human functioning, aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive

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Self

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In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of or thoughts feelings and actions

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Spot light effect

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance performance and blunders (spotlight shines on us)

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Self esteem

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Ones feelings of high or low self worth

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Self serving bias

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A readiness to perceive one self favorable

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Individualism

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Giving priority to ones own goals over group goals and defining ones identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

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Collectivism

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Giving priority time the goals of ones group and defining ones identify accordingly

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Gordon allport

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Personality traits

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Signing Freud

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Unconscious

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Abraham Maslow

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Self actualization

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Albert bandura

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Personal control

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Carl rogers

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Unconditional positive regard

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Carl jung

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Collective unconscious

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