Chapter 12: Personality Flashcards
Personality
Patterns of thought and behavior that make a person react to certain situations in relatively consistent ways.
Id
Pleasure principle
Ego
Reality principle
Superego
Seat of moral conscious
Displacement
A defense mechanism is which the ego redirects the aggressive impulses of the id from their intended targets to more defenseless targets.
Projection
A defense mechanism in which people, instead of acknowledging it in themselves, see others as possessing a disliked trait or feeling.
Repression
A defense mechanism in which the ego keeps unwanted feelings, thoughts, and memories below the level of conscious awareness
Denial
A defense mechanism in which the ego prevents the perception of a painful or threatening reality as it is occurring
Cardinal Trait
Dominant trait
Central Trait
General dispositions
Secondary Trait
Relevant in certain contexts
Self Reports
Questionnaires that involve reporting on one’s own personality traits
Projective Tests
Provides an ambiguous stimulus into which the test-taker “projects” his or her personality.
Behavioral Tests
Gathering information about people’s characteristics by assessing their overt behavior in highly standardized miniature situations.
Behavioral Activation System
A biological system that governs people’s general tendencies toward approaching things that are rewarding
