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Personality

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peoples typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving

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traits

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predispositions that influence our behavior’s across many situations
- account for consistencies in our behavior’s

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what are the three influences on personality?

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genetic - personality is linked to biological parents makeup
shared environmental - experiences within the same family make them more alike
nonshared environmental - experiences make individuals within the same family less alike

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Shared environment plays ________role in adult personality

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little to no role

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Genes directly influence traits T/F

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true

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who was Freud and what did he believe? what was his theory?

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neurologist that developed the first comprehensive theory of personality
psychoanalytical theory

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who developed the psychoanalytical theory?

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freud

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what is the psychoanalytical theory? what are the three primary assumptions?

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1 psychic determinism
2 symbolic meaning
3 unconscious motivation

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what is psychic determinism?

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all psychological events have a cause
we arent free to choose out actions

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what is symbolic meaning?

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no action is meaningless - everything is a symbol for something

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what is unconscious motivation?

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rarely understand why we do what we do

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Freud though the psyche consisted of three components which are..

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ID - primitive instincts - sex and aggression
Ego - decision maker - deal with real world
Superego - sense of morality - ppl with high superego are guilty

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what are defense mechanisms?

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unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety - tools for coping

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what are the 7 defense mechanisms?

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repression
denial
projection
displacement
rationalization
intellectualization
sublimation

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what is repression

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motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories
forget because you want to

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what is denial?

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motivated forgetting of distressing experiences

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what is projection?

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attribution of our negative qualities onto others

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what is displacement?

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direct an unacceptable impulse into one that is more acceptable/safe

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what is rationalization?

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reasonable explaination for something that is not

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what is intellectualization?

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avoid anxiety by thinking about abstract and interpersonal thoughts

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what is sublimation?

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transforming impulse into a goal

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who developed the stages of psychosexual development? what are they?

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freud
we pass through stages that are focused on erogenous zones of the body - if we get fixated on a stage we cannot move on

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what does erogenous mean?

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sexually arousing

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what are the stages of the psychosexual development theory? - describe

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oral - birth - 12/18 months - mouth - suck/drink
anal - 18mo-3yrs - toilet training - ego develops
phallic - 3-6yrs - genitals - love opp sex parent
latency - 6-12 - find opp sex yucky
genital - 12+ - sexual impulses

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neo-Freudians - how did they differ?

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  • less emphasis on sexuality
  • more optimistic about personal growth
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skinner believed in ______ approaches

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behavioural

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Rodgers proposed the ___________theory

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self actualization

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what was the self-actualization theory?

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the drive to develop our inate potential to the fullest possible extent

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rodgers model focused on what 3 things?

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the organism
the self
the conditions of worth

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what is the big five model

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an approach to describe personality

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what are the big 5

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openness to experience
conscientiousness
extraversion
agreeableness
neuroticism

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what is openness to experience

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curiosity and unconventional
high - creative, new things, challenges, abstract thinking
low- no change, not imaginative, no new ideas

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what is conscientiousness?

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careful and responsible
high - perpared, finishes tasks, detail, schedual
low - no structure, not on time

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what is extraversion?

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social and lively
high - center of attention, meet new ppl, convo starter
low - think before talk, no small talk

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what is agreeableness?

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social able and easy to get along with
high - forgiveness, caring,helping,empathy
low - doesnt care for/about others

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what is Neuroticism?

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tense and moody
high - upset often, mood swings, anxious
low - emontionally stable, handle stress, rarely upset

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tendencies VS adaptations

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t - underlying personality traits
a - behavioral manifestations

38
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MMPI

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low face validity
good for mental disorders - bad in other ways

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