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Chapter 13 Flashcards

1
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personality

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distinctive pattern of traits/ dispositions that characterize an individual over time and across situations

behavior patterns that distinguish us from one another

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basic assumptions of freud’s psychodynamic theory

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personality driven by unconscious conflicts and feelings

formed primarily by early childhood experiences

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psychoanalysis

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thoughts and actions attributed to unconscious motives and conflicts

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preconscious

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info available but not currently in conscious

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conscious

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awareness

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unconscious

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unacceptable stuff

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id

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primitie, unconscious

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8
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pleasure principle

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immediate gratification ignore consesequences

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ego

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conscious, rational, logical

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superego

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moral center, what is accepted, proud of good decisions

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repression

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push bad things rom conscious

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projections

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attribute your bad impulses to others

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13
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rationalization

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self justifying explanations

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14
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displacement

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redirect impulses to safer outlet

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15
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regression

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go back to an earlier stage of development

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reaction formation

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unacceptable impulses transformed to opposite

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17
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oral stage

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0-18 months

putting stuff in their mouth

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anal stage

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18-36 months

bladder abd bowl elimination, potty training

19
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phalic

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3-6 years

genitals, sexual desire towards opposite sex parent

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latency

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6 years- puberty

hiding sexual feelings for other developments

21
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genital

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puberty- on

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objective trait perspective tests

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standardization- uniform administration/ scoring
reliable- gives the same results
valid- measures what it’s supposed to

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traits

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characteristic pattern of behavior

tendency to feel and act a certain way

24
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factor analysis

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statistical technique to ID clusters of related items

25
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Extroversion

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scale between intro and extro

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neuroticism

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emotional stability, stress vs relaxed

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agreeableness

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easy to get along with

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conscientiousness

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organization/ motivation vs not

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openness to experience

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open or not to new things

30
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reciprocal determinism

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interacting influences of behavior, internal personal factors and environment
different people choose different environments
personalities shape how we interpret and react to events
personalities help create situations that we react to

31
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external locust of control

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control is out of your hands

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internal locust of control

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my actions control my fate

33
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satisficers

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outcome must be “good enough”

34
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maximizers

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outcome must be optimal

35
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self

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organizer of thoughts feelings and locations

36
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self recognition

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  • babies prefer to look at still images of other babies
  • infants perfer to look at themselves kicking from an observers view
  • by two years, use the words me and mine
  • mark test
37
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self descriptions

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2 years- basic characteristics
preschool- physical features, posessions, preferences
middle childhood- behaviorial traits, abilities, emotions
later childhood- relational statements
adolescence- attitudes, traits, and beliefs in hypothetical
adulthood- possible selves

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spotlight effect-

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we think people pay more attention than they really do

39
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self esteem

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evaluation of the self and the affective reactions to that evaluation

40
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looking-glass self

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based on how one thinks others see him/ her

41
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competence view

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combination of what we would like to achieve and how confident we feel about achieving it

42
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self esteem pattern

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preschool-prek- high self esteem
elementary school- drops
middle/ late childhood- generally stable
adolescence- drops
adulthood- increases, then stable
43
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self serving bias

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judge ourselves favorably

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