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personality

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a person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality. Humanistic approach focused on our inner capacities for growth and self fulfillment

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free association

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in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
allows us to retrace line of dominoes and follow the chain of thought leading into unconscious mind where memories could be retrieved and released

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Psychoanalysis

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freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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Unconscious mind

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according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. according to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. some thoughts are store temporarily in the preconscious area from which we can retrieve them into conscious awareness

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repress

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forcibly block from our consciousness because they would be too unsettling to acknowledge - these strong feelings influence us

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manifest content

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content of a memory

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latent content

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what the content represents

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ID. opinions on sex and cake?

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contains a reservoir of unconscious energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. it operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification

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ego. opinons on sex and cake?

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the largely conscious “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, meditates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality, the ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain

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SUPEREGO. opinion on sex and cake?

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the part of personality that, according to freud represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (conscience) and for future aspirations

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psychosexual stages

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stages children pass through during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct pleasure sensitive areas called erogenous zones

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oedipus complex / electra

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during phallic stage boys seek genital stimulation ( jealous of father and desire for mother) boy experiences guilt and fear of punishment from father

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identification process

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process which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos
children’s superegos gain strength as they incorporate many of their parents’ values

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gender identity

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children identify with same sex parent to get our sense of being male or female

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fixation

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lingering focus on pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved. seeks gratification by smoking, excessive eating

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defense mechanisms

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ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality (7)

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repression

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banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness\
it underlies all other defense mechanisms
its incomplete and seeps our of dreams and tongue

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regression

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when faced with anxiety the person retreats to a infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
thumb sucking, homesickness

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reaction formation

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psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. thus people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety arousing unconscious feelings
unacceptable impulses turn opposite
i hate you become i love you

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projection

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people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
he doesn’t trust me becomes i don’t trust myself / him

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rationalization

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offers self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for ones actions
alcoholics say they drink just to be social
people that don’t study say that working makes you dull

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displacement

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shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
children who fear parents will kick their dog
students who are mad at test yell at their roommate

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denial

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people refuse to believe or perceive painful realities
reject fact or seriousness
dying patients deny gravity of sickness
spouses deny proof of partner’s affair

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projective tests

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personality test such as Rorschach or TAT that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
psychological xray

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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projective test where people express inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
storytelling assesses motivation

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Rorschach inkblot test

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most widely used projective test
10 inkblots that identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations
not very reliable

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the unconscious involves

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schemas that control perceptions and interpretations
priming by stimuli
split brain theory
parallel processing of different aspects of vision
implicit memories
emotions that activate before analysis
self concept and stereotypes that influence our opinions

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false consensus effect

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tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
people who cheat think everyone else cheats

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terror management theory

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theory of death related anxiety explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

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humanistic psychologists

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focus on ways healthy people strive for self determination and realization
think that secure nondefensive self acceptance is the first step to loving others
people think humanistic psychology is naive because it leaves out our capacity for evil

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Maslow - self actualization

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ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved, the motivation to fulfill one’s potential. maslow studied
healthy, creative people, secure

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Rogers - unconditional positive regard

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attitude of total acceptance toward another person

we are accepting and empathic

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self concept

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all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answering “who am i”
if we fall short of our ideals we are unhappy
assessed by questionnaire, what people want and what people are

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traits

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characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports
people’s characteristic behaviors and conscious motives

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factor analysis

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statistical procedure that identifies clusters of test items that tap basic components of intelligence

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brain imaging procedure show

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intelligence, impulsivity, cravings, lying, sexual attraction

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extraverts seek stimulation because their normal brain arousal is

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low

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autonomic nervous system reactivity

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we respond to stress with greater anxiety and inhibition

fearless child becomes fast driving adventurous adult

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personality inventories

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questionnaire true/false, agree/disagree, which people respond to items designed to gauge a range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits
longer and cover wide range of feelings and behaviors assess several traits at once

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI

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most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests
developed to identify emotional disorders, now used for many screening purposes
asses more “abnormal” personality tendencies

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empirically derived test

like MMPI

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developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
“nothing in the newspaper interests me except comics” - true …etc…

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table 13.2!!!
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism (emotional stability vs. instability)
Openess
Extraversion
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traits are

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the traits are stable
with age people mature and become more agreeable
traits are about 50% hereditary
the big 5 predict other personal attributes

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Personality stability

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with age, personality traits become more stable
careers, relationships, interests change but people recognize their traits
stable but not always constant

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