Ch.11: Personality

Question 1

A unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Personality

Question 2

In freudian terms, thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of or is remembering

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Conscious

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Freud’s term for thoughts, motives, or memories that exist just beneath the surfaces of awareness and can be called to consciousness when neccesary

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Preconsciousness

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Freud’s term for a part of the psyche that stores repressed urges and primitive impulses

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Unconscious

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According to Freud, the primitive, unconscious component of personality that operates irrationally and acts on the pleasure principle

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Id

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In Freud’s theory, the principle in which the Id operates– seeking immediate gratification

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Pleasure principle

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In Freud’s theory, the rational, decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principe

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Ego

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The principle in which the conscious ego operates as it seeks to delay gratification of the Id’s impulses until appropriate outlets and situations can be found

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Reality principle

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The aspect of personality that operates on the morality principle, the “conscience” that internalizes society’s values, standards, and morals

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Superego

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The principle in which the superego operates feelings of guilt result if its rules are violated

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Morality principle

Question 11

The egos’s protective method of reducing anxiety by self-deception and distort reality

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Defense mechanism

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: preventing a painful or unacceptable thoughts from entering conciousness

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Repression

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: redirecting socially unacceptable impulses into acceptable activities

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Sublimation

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: refusing to accept an unpleasant reality

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denial

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: creating socially acceptable excuse to justify unacceptable behavior

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Rationalization

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: ignoring the emotional aspects of a painful experience by focusing on abstract thoughts, words, ideas

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Intellectualization

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: transferring unacceptable thoughts, motives, or impulses (Cheating)

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projection

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: not acknowledging unacceptable impulses and overemphasizing their opposite (homophobic)

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Reaction formation

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: Reverting to immature ways of responding (tantrums)

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Regression

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Type of DEFENSE MECHANISM: redirecting impulses from the original source toward a less threatening person or object

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Displacement

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Five development periods (oral,anal,phallic, latency, and genital) during which particular kinds of pleasures must be gratifies if personality development is to proceed normally

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Psychosexual stages

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________ believed behavior is purposeful and goal oriented, individual psychology. motivated by our goals in life

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Alfred Adler

Question 23

Alder’s idea that feelings of inferiority develop from early childhood experiences of helplessness and incompetence

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Inferiority complex

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______ developed analytical psychology, emphasized unconscious processes, believed it contains positive and spiritual motives as well as sexual and aggression

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Carl jung

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Jung's concept of the part of an individuals' unconscious that is inherited, evolutionary developed and common to all members of the species

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collective unconscious

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The universal, inherited, primitive and symbolic representation of a particular experience or object which resides in the collective unconscious

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Archetype

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_______ developed a creative blend of FREUDIAN, ADLERIAN, JUNGIAN theory. Empasized women's positve traits and freud's ideas are mainly bias. social inferiority penis envy

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Karen Horney

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According to horney, feelings of helplessness and insecurity that adults experience because as children they felt alone and isolated in a hostile environment

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Basic anxiety

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Three ways everyone copes with basic anxiety are

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move toward it. away from it, or against other people

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A relatively stable personality characteristics that can be used to describe someone

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traits

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A comprehensive descriptive personality system that includes OCEAN

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Five-factor model

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OCEAN STANDS FOR

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``` Openness Conscientiousness Extroversion Agreeableness Neuroticism (emotional stability) ```

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The humanistic term for the inborn drive to realize one's full potential and to develop all one's inherent talents and capabilities

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Self-Actualization

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A person's relatively stable self-perception or mental model based on life experiences, particularly the feedback and perception of others. CARL ROGERS

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Self concept

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Roger's term for love and acceptance with no contingencies attached

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Unconditional positive regard

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Bandura's term for a person's learned expectation of success in a given situation; also another term for self-confidence

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Self-efficacy

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Bandura's belief that a complex reciprocal interaction exists among the individual, his or her behavior, and environmental stimuli

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Reciprocal determination

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Julian Rotter's theory that learning experiences create ________ that guide behavior and influence the environment.

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cognitive expectancies

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Walter Mischel, ignited the _________ when he suggested that our personalities change according to a given situation

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Person-situation debate

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Personality assesment can be grouped into 4 Categories

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interview, observations, objective test, and projective test

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The most widely researched and clinically used self-report personality test

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Minnesota Multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)