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Chapter 10: Personality Flashcards

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personality

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unique attitudes, perspectives and emotions that define a person

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type a

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work hard play hard; super conscious of deadlines; easily angered

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type b

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relaxed, easygoing

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freud’s theory on personality

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oral can lead to fixation; anal to retentive or expulsive; phallic to penis envy or castration anxiety

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anal-expulsive personality

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messy, disorganized, stuck in anal stage

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anal-retentive personality

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meticulously neat and organized

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fixation in the phallic stage

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people who are unnecessarily sexually assured/aggressive; or consumed by perceived sexual inadequacies

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freud’s sections of personality

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id, ego, superego

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id

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is in the unconscious and contains life instincts (eros) and death instincts (thanatos)

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pleasure principle

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id chases immediate gratification

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ego

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mediates between internal id and external environment/superego

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superego

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sense of right and wrong, conscience.

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reality principle

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ego mediates between internal desires and external realities

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defense mechanisms

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repression, denial, displacement, projection, reaction formation, regression, rationalization, intellectualization, sublimation

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repression

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blocking thoughts out, “who is muffy?”

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denial

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not accepting the ego-threatening truth; “we have a date next week,”

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displacement

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redirecting emotions; anger at a teacher may be redirected to a classmate

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projection

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insisting that your feelings for someone else are actually their feelings for you; muffy still loves me!

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reaction formation

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saying the opposite of what you truly feel; i hate muffy!

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regression

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regressing to an earlier, comforting behavior, like sleeping with a stuffed animal

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rationalization

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coming up with a beneficial result of an undesirable consequence; at least I can have free time or something

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intellectualization

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undertaking academic study of a topic

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sublimation

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channeling emotions to a different goal, devotes himself to doing other stuff

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Karen Horney & Nancy Chodorow

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posited the idea of womb envy, or that men are jealous of women’s reproductive capabilities; and challenges the idea that men are superior to women or have stronger superegos

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Carl Jung

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psychodynamic theorist; theorized personal and collective unconscious; personal unconscious contains repressed thoughts and memories; collective unconscious is the personality that’s passed down in the culture

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Alfred Adler

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downplayed importance of unconscious and played up the ego; inferiority is the fear of being inferior; superiority as desire to achieve

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trait theorists

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believe that we can describe people through their personalities

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nomothetic approach

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we can use all the same criteria to define personalities

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Raymond Cattell

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16 factor personality test

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Hans Eyesenck

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extraversion-intraversion; stable-unstable

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Paul Costa & Robert McCrae

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5-factor personality test; extraversion, stability, aggreeableness, conscientiousness, openness

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idiographic theorists

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each person is unique and we can’t use the nomothetic approach

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Gordon Allport

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posits that there are a small percentage of people that are defined by one trait, called cardinal dispositions; central dispositions also act a major part and secondary dispositions play a minor role

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Hippocrates

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thought that personality was controlled by 4 humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm

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William Sheldon’s somatotype theory

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endomorphs, ectomorphs, mesomorphs body type gives you a personality type

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BF Skinner

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emphasized the role of environment in personality,

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reciprocal determinism

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environment, traits and behavior interact and reinforce each other; i.e. reciprocal determinism

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self-efficacy

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the degree to which you can expect to get things done; high self-efficacy means that you have a high self-esteem in terms of things you think you can do

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George Kelly

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personal-construct theory & fundamental postulte

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personal construct theory

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people view their worlds in terms of a series of opposites; fair-unfair, exciting-dull

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fundamental postulate

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people act in terms of their constructs and by knowing their past actions we can predict their future actions

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bandura

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self-efficacy

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Julian Rotter

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theorized hte idea of locus of control

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internal locus of control

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hard work leads to success, i determine my own future

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external locus of control

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factors like luck and things determine our success

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third force

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humanistic approach

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humanistic approach

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rejects determinism and substitutes free will, our ability to choose our own actions; self concept, self-esteem

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self-concept

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global view of how we perceive ourself

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unconditional positive regard

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Carl Rogers’s theory that we need unconditional acceptance in order to reach self actualization

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projective tests

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like the rorschach inkblot tests, ask people to interpret random stimuli

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thematic approach test

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TAT, giving cards with random scenes and asking them to describe it

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self-report inventories

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surveys for people to evaluate themselves

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MMPI-2

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minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

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Barnum effect

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there’s a sucker born every minute, ability to see ourselves as stock descriptions of personality and fall prey to fortune tellers and astrologists

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