Ch11 Flashcards

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Collective unconcious

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Deepest parts of our psyche which reflects our evolutionary theory

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What was the third force in psychology?

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Humanists

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Who were the two main theorists of the humanistic perspective?

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Abraham Mazlow- known for his hierarchy of basic human needs, with self actualization being the highest.
Carl Rodgers-
Unconditional positive guard- attitude of complete acceptance, which is nessasary for
congruence- emotions and experiences consistent with onself.
Actualization tendency is most basic human motive

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What is unconditional and conditioned positive regard

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Unconditional is love and exceptence without conditions and conditioned is with conditions

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What was Albert banduras theory and three aspects?

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Social cognitive theory
Interaction between traits, cognition, and situation.
We think about our situation and interact

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Albert banduras self efficacy

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The extent or strength of ones belief in ones own ability to complete tasks and reach goals

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Trait theory-

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Classifying a persons personality by describing characteristic patterns of behavior (traits) of the person.

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The big 5 personality traits and vs

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1) openness (to new experiences)
Imaginative, variety, independent 
Vs 
Practicle,routine, conforming 
2) conscientiousness 
Organized, careful, disciplined 
Vs
Impulsive, careless, impulsive 
3) Extroversion
Sociable, fun-loving, affectionate 
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Retiring, sober, reserved 
4) agreeableness
Soft hearted, trusting, helpful
Vs
Ruthless, suspicious, uncooperative 
5) neuroticism 
Anxious, insecure, self-pitying
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Emotional stable, calm, secure, self-satisfying
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What is the MMPI and what does it assess

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

- assess on ten deferent clinical scales including depression and introversion/extroversion scales

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What is the Myers-Briggs type indicator and how is it different than trait personality tests?

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Personality types not traits
Introvert or extrovert=reserved vs social
Sensing vs iNtuition= senses vs meanings and patterns
Thinking or feeling= analyzing data vs going with ur gut
Judging or perceiver= work before play vs work in bursts

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What were Carl Jungs archetypes

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Collective unconcious

Expressed in myths and religions

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Definition of personality

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Unique and relative consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving

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What was Freuds technique of free association?

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Patient would spontaneously report mental images, thoughts, and feelings allowing Freud to view the unconcious mind and child hood memories

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Freuds theory about dreams?

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Believed his interpretations of dreams to be the royal road to the unconscious activities of the mind

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What’s Freuds three parts of the personality?

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ID- operates on pleasure principle. Unconscious
EGO- reality principle, partly concious thoughts and judgments
Superego- how we should behave. Produces shame and guilt

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Freuds psychosexual stages, what happens when one becomes fixated?

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0-18 oral. Pleasurable Sucking, chewing, feeling and biting
18-36 Anal. Control over elimination which is pleasurable
3-6 phallic. Masturbation and sexual attraction. Oedipus.
6-12 Latency. Sexual feeling dormant. Same sex friends
12- genital. Mature sexual feeling and relationships

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Freudian slip

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Misstatement that reveals unconscious wishes or motives

18
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Repression or denial

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Refusing to believe painful realities

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Regression-

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Retreating to an infantile psychosexual stage. Sucking thumb

20
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Reaction formation-

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Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites

21
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Rationalization

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Self justifying excuses. I drink to be social

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Displacement-

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Shifting aggression to a less threatening target. Kicking the dog

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Sublimation

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Channeling unexeptable impulses into acceptable outlets

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Projection

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Disguising threatening impulses by blaming others

25
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Oedipus complex

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Unconscious sexual attraction to the opposite sex parent and hostility between same sex parent.
Castration anxiety in little boys and penis envy from little girls

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Psychoanalytical theory

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Sigmund Freud theory’s of personality

27
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Projective test

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Personality test of ambiguous scenes, words or images that uncovers unconcious material

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Normative social influence

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Behavior modified for acceptance of group

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Informational social influence

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Behavior modified by a desire to be correct but we doubt our own judjement so look to the group for accurate info

30
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Person perception

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Forming judgments about likability, competence, trusting, aggressiveness based on a quick glance. 1/10 of a second

31
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Fundamental attribution error

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Attributing the cause of someone’s behavior to their internal, personal characteristics while ignoring or underestimating the situational factors

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Blaming the victim

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Blaming an innocent victim for their misfortune for having somehow caused the problem

33
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Just world hypothesis

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World is fair so people get what they deserve

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Attitude

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A learned tendency to evaluate an object, person, or issue in a particular way

35
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Cognitive dissonance

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Focusing on the positive aspects of our choice and minimizing negative. Smoking not that bad

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Deindividuation

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Masks and darkness reduce self awareness and inhibitors

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Self serving bias

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Tendency to attribute positive events to internal attributions and negative events to the external attributes

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Solomon aschs conformity experiment

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Which line is same length. Use of normative and informational influences. 76% conformed

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Stanley’s mil grams obedience experiment

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Pressured by an authority figure into committing an immoral act. 2/3 went to full shock

40
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Phillip zimbardos stanford prison experiment

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Showed conformity to implied social rules and norms.

Shut down after six days. Zimbardo lost awareness of inhuman treatment