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10- Personality Flashcards

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the individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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personality

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what we are aware of

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conscious

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outside of our awareness, but accessible

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preconscious

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a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

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unconscious

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information processing of which we are unaware

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contemporary view of unconscious

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a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to their mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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free association

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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psychoanalysis

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a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

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id

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demanding immediate gratification

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pleasure principle

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the largely conscious “executive” part of personality that mediates among the demands of id, superego, and reality

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ego

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satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain

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reality principle

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the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations

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superego

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the childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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psychosexual stages

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pleasure centers on the mouth

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oral stage (0-18 months)

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pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

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anal stage (18-36 months)

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pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

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phallic stage (3-6 years)

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dormant sexual feelings

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latency stage (6-puberty)

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maturation of sexual intents

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genital stage (puberty on-)

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a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Oedipus complex

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the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos

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identification

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parallel to Oedipus complex but in girls

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electra complex

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a pleasure sensitive area of the body

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erogenous zone

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a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies of an easier psychosocial stage, in which conflicts were unresolved

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fixation

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the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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defense mechanism

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the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

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repression

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mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage

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regression

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mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites

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reaction formation

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

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projection

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mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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rationalization

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mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulsed toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

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displacement

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mechanism by which people re-channeled their unacceptable impulses into socially approached activities

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sublimation

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

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denial

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m

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Adler

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a

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Horney

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;

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Jung

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a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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collective unconscious

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childhood shapes personality and attachments; much of mental life is unconscious; struggle with inner conflicts among our wishes, fears, and values

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psychodynamic theory

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a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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projective test

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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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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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most widely used projective test; a set of 10 inkblots; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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Rorschach inkblot test

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a theory of death-related anxiety; explores emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

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terror-management theory

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one of the ultimate psychological needs that rises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved

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self-actualization

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go beyond ordinary consciousness

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peak experiences

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genuineness, acceptance, and empathy

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sources of growth promoting climate

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an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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unconditional positive regard

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, “Who am I?”

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self-concept

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vague, subjective, individualistic, Western biased, naïve

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criticisms to the humanistic perspective

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a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act; description rather than explanation

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trait

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Introversion vs extroversion
Emotional stability vs instability
Personality questionnaire

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Eysenck and Eysenck

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Frontal love activity is _____ in extroverts and brain arousal is ____ in extroverts as well

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Less; low

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Questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors

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Personality inventory

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The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests; originally developed to identify emotional disorders

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Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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

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Empirically derived test

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Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extroversion

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Big five factors

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context

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Social-cognitive perspective

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Bandura’s thought that the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Reciprocal determinism

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

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Personal control

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1- correlate people’s feelings of control with their behaviors and achievements
2- experiment by raising or lowering people’s sense of control

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Ways to study personal control

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Perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate

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External locus of control

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The perception that you control your own fate

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Internal locus of control

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The ability to control impulses and delay gratification

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Self-control

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Experiencing no control over repeated bad events leads to feeling hopeless

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Learned helplessness

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Having limitless experiences or choices brings information overload and a greater likelihood that we will feel regret over some of the unchosen options

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Tyranny of choice

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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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Positive psychology

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Assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Self

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Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

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Spotlight effect

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One’s feelings of high or low self-worth

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Self-esteem

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Self-serving bias

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Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s idenity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

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Individualism

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Giving priority to the goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly

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Collectivism

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