Chapter 12 - Personality

Question 1

personality

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The biologically and environmentally determined characteristics within a person that accounts for distinctive and relatively enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and act

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psychic energy

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Generated by instinctual drives, this energy powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release

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id

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The primitive and unconscious part of the personality that contains the instincts

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ego

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The executive of the personality that was partly conscious and that mediates between the impulses of the id, the prohibitions of the superego, and the dictations of reality

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pleasure principle

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The drive for instant need gratification that is characteristic of the id

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superego

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The moral arm of the personality that internalizes the standards and values of society and serves as the person’s conscience

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sublimination

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defense mechanism

- a repressed impulse is released in the form of a socially acceptable or even admired behaiour

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defense mechanisms

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Unconscious processes by which the ego prevents the expression of anxiety arousing impulses or allows them to appear in disguised form

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reality principle

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The egos tendency to take reality into account and act in rational fashion to satisfy it’s needs

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repression

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The basic defense mechanism not actively keeps anxiety arousing material in the unconscious

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analytic psychology

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Jungs expansion of Freud’s notion of the unconscious; don’t believe that humans possess not only a personal unconscious based on their life experiences, but also a collective unconscious that consists of memories accumulated throughout the entire history of the human race

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archetypes

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Innate concepts and memories that reside in the collective unconscious *Jung

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object relations

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The images and mental representation that form of themselves and other people as a result of early experience caregivers

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self

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In Rogers theory, and organize, consistent set of perceptions and believes about oneself

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self-consistency

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An absence of conflict among self perception

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congruence

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Consistency between self-perceptions and experience

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threat

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Any experience we have that is inconsistent with our self-concept, including our perception of our own behaviour

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need for positive regard

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An innate need for acceptance, sympathy, and love from others

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unconditional positive regard

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communicates that someone is inherently worth love

*conditional positive regard - conditional dependent on how child behaves

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need for self-regard

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Positive regard from self

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conditions of worth

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Internalize standards of self-worth fostered by conditional positive regard from others

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fully functioning persons

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Rogers theory for self actualized people who are free from unrealistic conditions of work and who exhibit congruence, spontaneity, creativity, and the desire to develop still further

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self-esteem

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How positively or negatively we feel about ourselves

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self-verification

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The tendency to try to verify or validate one’s existing self-concept that is, to satisfy congruence needs

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self-enhancement

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Process whereby one enhances positive self regard

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gender schemas

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Organized mental structures that contain our understanding of the attributes and behaviors that are appropriate as expected for males and females

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self-monitoring

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A personality trait that reflects peoples tendencies to regulate their social behavior in accordance with situational cues as opposed to internal values, attitudes, and needs

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social cognitive theory

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• Cognitive behavioral approach to personality
• Developed by Albert Bandura and Walter Mischel
• Emphasizes the role of social learning, cognitive processes, and self-regulation

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reciprocal determinism

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Bandura’s model of two-way casual relations between people, behavior, and the environment

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internal-external locus of control

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Roger’s generalized expectancy that one’s outcomes are under personal vs. external control

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self-efficiacy

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The conviction that we can perform the behaviors necessary to produce a desired outcome

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behavioral assesment

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Explicit coding system devised by psychologists that contains the behavioral categories of interest

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remote behavior sampling

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Researchers and clinicians collect samples of behavior from respondents as they live their daily lives

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rational approach

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An approach to test construction in which test items are made up on the basis of theorists conception of a construct

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empirical approach

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An approach to test construction in which items are chosen that differentiate between two groups that are known to differ on a particular personality variable

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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A widely used personality test’s items were developed using the empirical approach and by comparing various kinds of psychiatric patients with normal patients

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projective tests

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Tests, such as the Rorschach and the TAT, That present ambiguous stimuli to the subject; the responses are seem to be based on a projection of internal characteristics of the person onto the stimuli

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factor analysis

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A statistical technique that permit the a researcher to reduce a large number of measures to small number of clusters of factors; it identifies clusters of behavior or test scores that are highly correlated with one another