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Chapter 10 - Personality Flashcards

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Greek physician who believed that the body contains fluids called humors, the combination of which produced personality traits

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Hippocrates

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created a 16-factor personality system

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Cattell

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Temperant: quick-tempered

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Choleric (Yellow bile)

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When the ego protects you from anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality (Freud)

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defense mechanisms

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Temperant: warm and cheerful

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Sanguine (blood)

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Rogers and Maslow belong to this perspective

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Humanistic

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Well-learned automatic responses

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Habits

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External conditions that influence our behaviors

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Situational Determinants

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Creator of the inferiority complex

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Adler

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mental activity that can be easily brought to awareness

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Preconscious level

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Five erogenous zones in order

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency period, Genital

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Perspective that says our personality is a set of learned responses and habits

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Behaviorism

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A child struggles with an _____ _____ during growth and strives for superiority and power

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inferiority complex

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7 Freud defense mechanisms from most to least adaptive

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Sublimation, Identification, Displacement, Repression, Rationalization, Projection, Denial

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You MAKE things happen to you

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Internal Locus of Control

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“Nice people don’t do that” Ideals and morals; striving for perfection; incorporated from parents

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Superego

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The ego operates mainly at the _____ level but also the _____ level

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conscious; preconscious

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An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking and acting. Who you are regardless of the situation

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Personality

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Name for five-factor model of personality

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The Big 5 (OCEAN)

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activity well below level of awareness

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Unconscious level

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Temperant: sluggish and cool

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Phlegmatic (Phlegm)

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Things happen TO you

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External Locus of Control

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According to Freud, humans pass through ____ ____ of development from birth to adulthoos

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psychosexual stages

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Defense Mechanism: Redirecting unacceptable impulses into acceptable outlets

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Sublimation

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The superego operates mostly at this level of consciousness

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Preconscious

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internalized rules

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Superego

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Perspective that says personality is a collection of traits

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Trait Perspective

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According to Roger’s theory if these two things are similar there is harmony, but if they aren’t there is disconnect

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ideal self and real self

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Defense Mechanism: Anxiety-producing info is pushed into unconscious

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Repression

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The id operates at this level of consciousness

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Unconscious

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Main psychologist associated with psychoanalytic perspective on personality

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Sigmund Freud

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7 Freud defense mechanisms from most to least adaptive mnemonic

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Submarines identify displaced red rays pretty decently

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Temperant: pensive and thoughtful

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Melancholic (Black bile)

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Said that people have a self-actualizing tendency and want to reach their full potential

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Rogers

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“I want it now”; basic impulses (sex and aggression), seeks immediate gratification

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id

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Defense Mechanism: Refusing to recognize a distressing reality

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Denial

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Defense Mechanism: Creating an acceptable excuse for an uncomfortable situation

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Rationalization

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emphasized the importance of basic anxiety in personality development during early childhoos

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Horney

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psychic energy; impulsive and illogical

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id

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Defense Mechanism: Attributing your own anxiety-producing thoughts and impulses to someone else

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Projection

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Defense Mechanism: Unconsciously modeling our feelings and actions on the behaviors of someone else

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Identification

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monitors demands of id and superego

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ego

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Each psychosexual stage has an ____ ____ as well as a conflict that must be handled

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erogenous zone

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“Compromise maybe” executive mediating between id impulses and superego inhibitions; testing reality; rational

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Ego

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Defense Mechanism: Shifting negative feelings and impulses to an acceptable target

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Displacement

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everything you are aware of at a moment

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Conscious level

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created dimensions of personality based on extraversion and neuroticism

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Eysenck

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Behaviorists assert that people learn socially desirable behaviors through a process called ______

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socialization

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