Chapter 11 Flashcards

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personality

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the long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently
think, feel, and behave in specific ways.

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Sigmund Freud

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Proposed that unconscious drives influenced by sex, aggression and childhood sexuality influence personality.

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Neo-Freudians

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Agreed that childhood experiences matter. Less emphasis on sex

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Freudian slip

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Freud suggested that slips of
the tongue (saying a word you did not intend to say) are sexual/aggressive urges accidently slipping out of our unconscious.

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Id

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Impulsive, wanting pleasure, narcissist,

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Superego

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Strives to be perfect

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Ego

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Balance superego and id, rational,

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Denial

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Refusing to accept real events because they are unpleasant.

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Repression

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Suppressing painful memories and thoughts.

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Regression

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Returning to coping strategies for less mature stages of development.

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Inferiority complex

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A person’s feelings that they lack worth and don’t measure up to the standards of others or of society. (Alfred Adler)

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Erik Erikson

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Believes our personality changes throughout our whole life spam.

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carl Jung

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Introverts and extroverts balance between both.

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Karen Horney

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3 styles of coping used by children to relieve anxiety.

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Moving towards people

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Affiliation and dependence

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Moving against people

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Aggression and assertiveness

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Moving away from people

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Detachment and isolation

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THE BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE

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Learning approaches to personality focus on observable, measurable phenomena.

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Skinner

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We learn to behave in particular ways, Personality develops over our entire life.

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Alfred Adler

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Theorized that birth orders shapes our personality.

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Internal locus of control

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tend to believe that most of our outcomes are the direct
result of our efforts.

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external locus of control

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tend to believe that our outcomes are outside of our control. Believe lives are controlled by other people, luck, or chance.

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Ideal self

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the person you like to be.

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Real self

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the person you actually are.

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incongruence
maladjustment.
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High congruence
greater sense of self-worth and a health, productive life.
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Trait theorists
Believe that people have certain traits (characteristics or ways of behaving). For example, optimistic or pessimistic, sociable or shy
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Hans and Sybil Eysenck
Focused on temperament and believed that our personality. traits are influenced by our genetic inheritance.
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High in neuroticism
anxious, overactive sympathetic nervous system.
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High in stability
more emotionally stable.
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The hexaco traits
Honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness.
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MMPI
scored on 10 scales
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Rorschach Inkblot Test
individual interprets a series of symmetrical inkblot cards, revealing unconscious feelings and struggles.