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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Personality

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One’s characteristic pattern of thinking and feeling that remains relatively consistent over time and situations

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Idiographic approach

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Create descriptions of one’s specific traits

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Nomothetic Approach

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Examine personality in large groups and try to make generalizations

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Personality Trait

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psychological trait that makes up a part of one’s personality

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Factor Analysis

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Used to group items that people respond to similarly

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Five Factor Model

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A theory of personality based on the finding that personality can be described using five components

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HEXACO model

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Adds honesty-humility to the personality model

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The Dark Triad

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Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism

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Machiavellianism

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Manipulation

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Psychopathy

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Low emotional responses

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Narcissism

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Egotistical

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Right Wing Authoritarianism

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Personality traits that promote antisocial and violent behaviours

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Temperaments

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Innate behaviour that personality is built in

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Major time period for personality change

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Late adolescence, early adulthood

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State

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Temporary engagement that influences behaviour

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16
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Reciprocal determinism

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Internal factors and external situational factors influence each other

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Humourism

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Explained illnesses due to fluid imbalances

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Phrenology

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Traits predicted by shape of skull

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Arousal Theory of Extraversion

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Extraversion depends on one’s threshold for arousal

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Ascending Reticular Activating System

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Plays a role in arousal

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Behavioural Activation System

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Go

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Behavioural Inhibition System

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Stop

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Response styles

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Characteristic ways of responding to questions

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id

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Urge towards sex and aggression

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Superego

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Morals

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Ego

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Decision maker between id and superego

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Defense Mechanisms

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Strategies the ego uses to reduce anxiety

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Denial

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Unwillingness to acknowledge unpleasant info

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Reaction Formation

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Altering an impulse one finds unacceptable into its opposite

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Sublimation

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Turning an unacceptable behaviour into an acceptable one

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Identificaiton

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Assuming characteristics of another

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Projection

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Attributing qualities you dislike to others

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Repression

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Keep distressing information out of mind

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Displacement

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Turn unacceptable behaviour into a less unacceptable one

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Fixation

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Preoccupied with a certain stage of development

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Oral Stage

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0-18 months

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Anal Stage

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18 months - 3 years

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Anal expulsive

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Disorganized

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Anal retentive

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Organized

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Phallic Stage

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3-6 years. Oedipus complex

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Oedipus complex

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Boys sexually attracted to their mothers. Fear their fathers may cut off their penises.

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Latency Stage

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6-13 years

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Genital Stage

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puberty

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Projective Tests

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Interpretation of ambiguous images

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Rorschach inkblot test

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Interpretation of inkblots

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Thematic apperception test

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Involve interpretation of figures

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Analytical Psych

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Focuses on unconscious archetypes

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Personal unconsciousness

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Experiences and emotions in an individual’s life

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Collective Unconsciousness

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nonpersonal unconsciousness that holds myth

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Archetype

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Trope that represents patterns across cultures

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Person-centred perspective

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People are inherently

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Social Cognitive Perspective

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Alfred Bandura. Behaviour, environment, and personal factors/beliefs interact to form personality

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