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Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Personality is defined as

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an individuals unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

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Personality theory describes and explains

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Describes and explains how people are similar, how they are different, and why every individual is unique

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Major theoretical perspectives on personality are

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Psychoanalytic perspective and trait perspective

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychologist who created the psychoanalysis perspective

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Psychoanalysis stresses the importance of

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Unconscious forces sexual and aggressive instinct and early childhood experiences

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Psychoanalysis is both

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An approach to therapy and a theory of personality

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Psychoanalysis emphasized

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Unconscious motivation—the main cause of behavior library in the unconscious mind

It saw personality and behavior as a result of a constant interplay among conflicting psychological forces

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What are the three different levels of awareness of psychological forces

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Conscious preconscious and unconscious

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Conscious

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Information in your immediate awareness

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Preconscious

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Information that can easily be made conscious

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Unconscious

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Thoughts feelings urges and wishes that are difficult to bring to conscious awareness

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Id (unconscious)

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is the instinctual drivers present at birth which operate according to the pleasure principle

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Pleasure principle

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motive to obtain pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort—which is the most fundamental human motive and the guiding principle of Id

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Ego

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Conscious and rational component of personality which understand reality and logic
It is most in touch with the demands of the external world

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Reality principle

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Ability to post pone gratification in accordance with demands of the external world
Can repress desires that cannot be met in an acceptable Manor

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Superego

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Partly conscious, self evaluate of, moralistic component of personality

It is formed through the internalization of parental and societal rules

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A child develops an internal parental voice that is partly conscious at the age of…(superego)

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5 or 6

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Freud’s psychosexual stages

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(Five diff) age related developmental periods in which a child sexual urges are often focused on different areas of the body

These are expressed through the activities associated with those areas

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The foundations of adult personality are establish during the first…(how many years of life)

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5 years

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Oral (Birth to age 1) stage is when

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Mouth is primary source of pleasure, which is why babies want to put things in mouth and be fed, and are calmed with a pacifier

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Anal (ages 1 to 3) stage is when

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The anus is a primary focus of pleasurable sensations which a young child obtains through developing control over secreting poop (toilet training)

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Phallic (Age 3 to 6) stage is when

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The genitals are primary focus of pleasurable sensations, which the child obtains through sexual curiosity, masturbation, and sexual attractions to the opposite sex parent.

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Latency (Ages 7 - 11) stage is when

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Sexual impulses become repressed and dormant as a child develops same-sex friendships with peers and focuses on school sports and other activities

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Genital (12 - Adolescence) stage is when

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adolescent reaches physical sexual maturity and the genitals become the primary focus of pleasurable Sensations again, which the person seeks to satisfy a heterosexual relationship

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If a child was fixated at the oral stage of development (was not able to progress further in the stages) they might experience what in adulthood

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Seeking pleasure through oral area like smoking or tabacco

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Trait

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A relatively stable and enduring predisposition to behave a certain way

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Surface trait

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Characteristic or attribute that can be inferred from observable behavior

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Source trait

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Most fundamental dimension of personality

—Basic traits that are hypothesized to be universal and relatively few in number

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Raymond Cattell

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Propose 16 personality factors in the 1940s. He also used a statistical technique called factor analysis to identify them, called the 16PF.

30
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Hans Eysenck

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Proposed a simpler model of universal source traits with three different source traits, introversion – extraversion, neuroticism – emotional stability, and psychoticism.

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Hans Eysenck believe that individual differences in personality are due to

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Biological differences among people

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McCrae and Costa

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Developed the Five factor model.

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Five factor model of personality

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A trait theory of personality that identifies a fundamental building blocks of personality as:

Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
34
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Projective test

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Type of personality test involves a person’s interpretation of an ambiguous image

Used to Assess unconscious motives and conflicts psychological defenses and personality traits

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Hermann Rorschach

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Created ink blot test

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Rorschach inkblot test

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Projective test using ink blots

37
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Thematic apperception test (TAT)

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A projective personality test developed by Henry Murray and colleagues that involves creating stories about ambiguous scenes

The person to start to project is on motors complex another personality characteristics into a story he creates

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Henry Murray

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With the help of his colleagues created the TAT also known as thematic apperception test

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MMPI – Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

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Self-report inventory that access his personality characteristics and psychological disorders—used to assess both normal and disturbed populations

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CPI – California psychological inventory

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A self-report inventory that assesses personality characteristics in normal populations

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16PF - 16 personality factor questionnaire

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A self-report inventory developed by Raymond Cattell that generates a personality profile with ratings on 16 trait dimensions

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