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Chapter 14 Flashcards

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What is personality?

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psychological characteristics that guide a person to act consistently in various contexts and situations across time.

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Where does personality come from?

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Biological factors
cognitive processes
developmental factors

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How is personality measured?

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surveys in which multiples items assess each personality traits.

  • NEO-PI (five -Factory inventory)
  • MMPI-2 ( Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
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What is O C E A N?

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“The big five”, major accredited personality test:
O- openness to experience (openness to try new things)
C- conscientiousness ( attention to detail)
E- extraversion (degree of outgoingness and enjoyment)
A- agreeableness (friendliness and sociability)
N- neuroticisms (degree of enxiety)

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Conscientiousness in terms of the OCEAN test?

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best worker

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Agreeableness in terms of the OCEAN test?

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very creative

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Process theories?

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Describes how personality develops:

-personality results from internal mental processes and social interactions

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-Process approaches to personality include:

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Psychoanalytic theory:
humanistic theory’s
social-cognitive theories

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Psychoanalytic theory:

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Sigmund Freud’s principle.

-Our personality is determined by our unconsciousness and stores: repress thoughts, memories and feelings

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Libdo and Eros in terms of the Psychoanalytic theory?

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Libido: life instincts (drive to create)
Eros: The unconscious sex drive, produces and energy to create

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What was Frued’s second portion of his psychoanalytic theory?

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Thanos- Death instinct (aggression and competition)

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Following Frued’s Ice burg theory, describe ID ?

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ID: in the unconscious and is the most primitive portion of the mind.

  • This portion of the mind has no values and purely acts on pleasurable desires.
  • Contains and produces Libido
  • Actively releases Libido by interacting with the world
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Following Frued’s Ice burg theory, describe EGO?

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  • Gatekeeper for the ID
  • Rational aspect of the personality and controls instincts
  • Draws energy from the ID
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Following Frued’s Ice burg theory, describe Super-Ego?

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  • Develops early in life and is your morals

- Functions based off the will to be good, So it blocks desires from the ID

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Anxiety?

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  • Failure to relive tensions
  • ## Warns that the ego is being threatened
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What are the three types of anxiety Freud discussed?

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Neurotic- Fear of satisfying ID
Moral- Fear of acting on or thinking about something contrary to moral belief
Objective- fear from physical world

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How does our minds create coping mechanisms to help alleviate anxiety?

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=Shield our ego from anxiety

- Unconscious denials or distortions of reality

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Repression?

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forcing your problematic thoughts or experiences out of your awareness
ex: childhood trauma

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Denial?

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Avoids anxiety by arguing that the problem or tension doesn’t exist.
ex: smoking isn’t bad for me

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Rationalization?

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Provide a justification for problematic thought or action

ex: i only stole that shirt because i didn’t have a choice.

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Reaction formation?

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Acting out strongly against a troubling thought or action by doing the opposite.
ex: a gay politician who supports anitgay legislation

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Displacement-Redirecting?

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redirecting your emotions for a person or situation toward someone or something else.
ex: your boss pisses you off so you go home and take it out of your kids.

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Regression?

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responding to a stressful situation by acting in a childlike manner
ex: you have a crush on someone so when your around them you get all gigly.

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Sublimation?

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when a person is severely restrained from acting on a drive, he or she may direct energy elsewhere.
ex: getting really anger at your boss so you go workout

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Projection?

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accusing others of beliefs that you yourself hold

ex: hating a roommate, but thinking they’re the one who hates you.

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Psychodynamic approaches to personality assessment?

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-projective test: provide an ambiguous stimulus and ask people to respond to it

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TAT- thematic apperception test?

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Psychodynamic test

a picture that has a lot of room for interpretation and answers subject you to different personality test.

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Rorschach inkblot test?

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Psychodynamic test

random blobs of ink and subjects are ask to give their interpretation of what is being depicted.

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