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Chapter 13 & 15: Personality Flashcards

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What is personality?

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All those relatively permanent traits, dispositions, or characteristics within the individual that give some measure of consistency to that person’s behavior

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What is the psychodynamic perspective (Freud)?

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Personality is determined by conflicting, unconscious inner forces within the person

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What are the 3 levels of Freudian levels of thought?

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The conscious, preconscious, and unconscious

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What is the conscious level?

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Consists of things you are current aware of, constantly changing

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What is the preconscious level?

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Consists of things you are not currently aware of, but could retrieve if desired

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What is the unconscious level?

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Consists of things you’re unaware of and would be difficult to bring into awareness, primary personality component

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What are Freudian personality components?

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The id, the ego, and the superego

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What is the id?

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Functions according to primary-process thought which is irrational, instinct-driven, and out of touch (pleasure)

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What is the ego?

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Secondary-process thought, rational, controls and channels id (reality)

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What is the superego?

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Idealistic principle, strives for moral perfection, contains sense of right and wrong

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What is the oral stage?

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0-1, trust, pleasure comes from oral exploration of the world

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What is the anal stage?

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1-3, control, pleasure comes from urination and defecation

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What is the phallic stage?

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3-6, sex-role identification, pleasure comes from genital stimulation, oedipus conflict and Electra complex

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What is the latency stage?

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6-puberty, learning, sexual impulses are repressed and energy is focused on achievement and mastery of skills

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What is the genital stage?

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Puberty-adulthood, intimacy, sexuality resurfaces and pleasure comes from adult-type sexual activity, maturity occurs

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What is fixation?

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Becoming “stuck” in one stage of psychosexual development and not being able to progress any further

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What is regression?

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Moving back to an earlier stage of development acting childlike and dependent

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What are defense mechanisms?

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Employed by the ego to rid itself of the anxiety that comes from constantly trying to satisfy both id and superego

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What is the denial defense mechanism?

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Refusing to accept that the feeling is present or that the event occurred

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What is the repression defense mechanism?

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Relegating anxiety, causing thoughts to the unconscious, refusing to think about them

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What is the projection defense mechanism?

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Attributing one’s undesirable traits or actions to others, so they become the problem instead of you

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What is the displacement defense mechanism?

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Substituting a less-threatening object for the subject of the hostile or sexual impulse

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What is the sublimation defense mechanism?

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Redirecting anxiety, causing impulses into socially acceptable actions

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What is the reaction formation defense mechanism?

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Taking actions opposite to one’s feelings in order to deny the reality of the feelings

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What is the rationalization defense mechanism?

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Creating intellectually acceptable arguments for thoughts or behavior to hide the actual anxiety-causing impulses

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What is a personality assessment?

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Psychodynamic theorists use projective tests in which an individual must interpret ambiguous stimuli, reflecting unconscious processes

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What is the Rorschach test?

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Subject tells what each blot looks like and what aspect of the blot triggered that response

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What is the Rorschach test criticized for?

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Lack of reliability and low validity

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What is the TAT test?

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19 vague/ambiguous drawings, person describes what is happening in each

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What is free association in psychodynamic therapy?

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Patients report what comes to mind

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What is resistance in psychodynamic therapy?

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Unwillingness to discuss topics related to unconscious conflicts

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What is transference in psychodynamic therapy?

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Shifting thoughts/feelings about one important person from the past onto the therapist

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What are limitations to psychodynamic therapy?

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Minimizes patient responsibility, neglects conscious motives and the present, and fairly costly

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What are Neo-Freudians?

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Former students of Freud who broke away from him to create own theories

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What was Alfred Adler’s theory?

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Humans are motivated by the need to overcome inferiority and strive for significance, compensation, inferiority complex

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What was Carl Jung’s theory?

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Personal unconscious, collective unconscious (inherited tendencies to respond in a particular way shared by all humans)

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What was Erik Erikson’s theory?

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Emphasized social influences, development continues throughout life

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What was Karen Horney’s theory?

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Emphasized anxiety, felt that Freud’s theory was particularly inadequate for women, role of cultural variables

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What is humanistic psychology?

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People consciously and purposefully make unique choices that lead to their own personal growth

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What are the components of Carl Rogers’ Self Theory?

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Real self, ideal self, and fully-functioning person

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What is the real self?

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People’s actual perception of themselves and their abilities

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What is the ideal self?

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Contains the attributes the person would like to have

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What is the fully-functioning person?

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Match between the two: real and ideal self

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What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

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Based on humanistic principles and achievement of self-actualization

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What is the Human Potential Movement?

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Still evident in counseling and self-help materials

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What is humanistic therapy?

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Client-centered therapy developed by Carl Rogers

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What are characteristics of humanistic therapy?

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Uses mirroring, it is subjective (only client can determine improvement), and only appropriate for mild adjustment problems

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What are problems with behavioral theories?

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They arise from failure to learn adaptive behavior or learning or maladaptive behavior

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What is counterconditioning?

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Undesirable response replaced by preferable one

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What is systematic desensitization?

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Clients gradually learn to replace an anxiety response with relaxation

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What are extinction procedures?

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Likelihood of maladaptive response is reduced

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What is flooding?

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Person is over-exposed to anxiety-provoking stimulus until it no longer provokes anxiety

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Give an example of an operant conditioning technique.

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Token economies: using tokens that can be exchanged for other items/privileges as a reinforcer

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Give an example of an observational learning technique.

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Modeling: learning appropriate or desirable behavior by observing the actions of others

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What are limitations to behavioral therapy?

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Addresses only behavioral symptoms meaning underlying symptoms are not treated, new behavioral symptoms may emerge in place of the old ones

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What are cognitive theories?

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Focuses on role that thought processes play in creating disordered behavior

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What is rational emotive therapy?

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Believing in irrational beliefs: I must be perfect, everyone must love me, the past determines the future, it is catastrophic when things do not go as planned

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What is Beck’s cognitive theory?

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Teaching patient’s to replace the thoughts with realistic, healthy ones due to depression

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What are limitations to Beck’s theory?

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Fails to focus on emotions which are an important component of many disorders

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What are trait theories?

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They describe the structure of personality rather than explain it through processes

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What are universal theories?

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Examine how individuals differ on traits that all people possess

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Give an example of the universal theory.

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Being an introvert versus being an extrovert

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What are distinctive theories?

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Examine individuals’ unique sets of personality traits

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What is the Big Five (OCEAN)?

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Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, & neuroticism

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What is openness to experience?

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Closed to experience or open to it

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What is conscientiousness?

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If you are dependable or undependable as a person

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What is extraversion?

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If you are withdrawn or outgoing

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What is agreeableness?

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If you are low in agreeing or high in it

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What Is neuroticism?

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If you are stable or unstable

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What are pros and cons to the Big Five?

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Pros: helpful in predicting general trends in behavior
Cons: too general to predict behavior in specific situations

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What are Alport’s personal dispositions?

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Traits that are unique to each individual

72
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What are cardinal traits?

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Single dominant traits that influence all activities

73
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Give an example of a cardinal trait

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Mother Teresa being compassionate

74
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What are central traits?

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Influences behavior in most situations

75
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What are secondary traits?

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Influences behavior in particular situations

76
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What is the MMPI-2?

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Most widely used inventory that consists of 567 true-false that measures 10 clinical scales of personality

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What are strengthens and weaknesses of the MMPI-2?

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Strengthens: objective, reliable, valid, safeguards against faking
Weaknesses: Not culturally sensitive, classifies too many as emotionally disturbed

78
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What is Bandura’s theory?

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Self-efficiency: belief that we are competent and effective in dealing with the environment
Reciprocal determinism: personal variable influence environment and environment influences behavior

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What are advantages and disadvantages of group therapy?

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Advantages: empathy and support, social pressure, dynamic of group
Disadvantages: Less time and attention from therapist, some issues are not addressed

80
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What is family therapy?

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Assumption that many individual problems stem from family dynamics

81
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What does couples therapy help with?

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Sharing and adjusting expectations from significant others

82
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True or false: research does not provide convincing evidence that therapy is effective

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False, is it effective

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Effectiveness of therapy depends on:

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Fit among the therapy, nature of the problem, characteristics of therapist, and characteristics of client

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