Ch. 14 Theories Of Personailty Flashcards

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Unconscious

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Part of the mind that we are UNAWARE, but it influences conscious processes behaviors

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Unconscious personality that contains our needs, drives, instincts and repressed materials

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Id

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Ego

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Part of personality that is in touch with reality and strives to meet the demands of id and superego

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Part of personality that is the source of conscience and counteracts the socially undesirable impulses of the id

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Superego

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Id represents ……..
Ego……..
Superego…..

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Id- what the person wants to do
Ego - plans what she can do
Superego - advocates what she should do

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Certain specific means by which the who unconsciously protects itself against unpleasant impulses

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Defense mechanisms

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“The test questions were bad; they didn’t make sense”

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Rationalization

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When a person has painful memories and unacceptable thought and motives that the ego too much anxiety, she may push those thoughts into unconscious

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Repression

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The ego avoids anxiety is to believe that impulses coming from within are really coming from other people

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Projection

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Reaction formation

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Involves replacing an unacceptable feeling or urge with an opposite one

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Going back to less mature pattern of behavior

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Regression

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Redirecting a forbidden desire into a socially acceptable desire

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Sublimation

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13
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When you can’t take out your anger on the source of your frustrations, you displace it or take it out on less powerful people

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Displacement

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Carl Jung; the part of the mind that contains inherited instincts, urges, and memories common to all people

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Collective unconscious

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Am inherited idea, based on the experience of one’s ancestors, which shapes one’s perception of the world

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Archetype

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Alfred Adler; a pattern o avoiding feelings of inadequacy rather than trying to overcome their source

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Inferiority complex

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Personality

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The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person

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Belief that the proper subject matter of psychology is object observable behavior

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Behaviorism : b.f. Skinner

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The occurrence of rewards and punishments following particular behaviors

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Contingencies of reinforcement

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Albert bandura

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Social cognitive theory - observational learning

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Self- actualization

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The humanist term for realizing ones unique potential

22
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An individual whose person and self coincide

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Fully functioning

23
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Perception that individuals significant other value what They are

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Unconditional positive regard