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Chapter 14 - Personality Flashcards

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What is personality?

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People’s typical ways of thinking, feeling and behaving

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What is a trait?

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Relatively enduring predisposition that influences our behaviour across many situations

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What is a nomothetic approach?

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A scientific approach that seeks out general principles in nature rather then principles specific to an individual

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What is an idiographic approach?

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A scientific approach that focuses on identifying the unique configuration of characteristics and life history experiences within a person

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What is the molecular genetic study

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The investigation allows researchers to pinpoint genes associated with specific personality traits

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What is psychic determinism?

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The assumption that all psychological events have a cause

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What is id

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The reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and aggression

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What is the pleasure principle?

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The tendency of the id to strive for immediate gratification

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What is a superego?

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Our sense of morality

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What is an ego?

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Psyche’s executive and principal decision maker

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What is the reality principle?

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The tendency of the ego to postpone gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet

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What are defence mechanisms?

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Unconscious manoeuvres intended to minimize anxiety

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What is repression?

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Motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories or impulses

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What is denial?

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Motivated forgetting of distressing external experiences

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What is reaction formation?

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Transformation of an anxiety-provoking emotion into its opposite

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What is projection?

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Unconscious attribution of our negative characteristics to others

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What is displacement?

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Directing an impulse from a socially unacceptable target onto a safer and more socially acceptable target

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What is rationalization?

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Providing a reasonable-sounding explanation for unreasonable behaviours or for failures

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What is sublimation?

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Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired goal

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What is the erogenous zone?

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Sexually arousing zone of the body

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What is the oral stage?

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Psychosexual stage that focuses on the mouth

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What is the anal stage?

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The psychosexual stage that focuses on toilet training

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What is the phallic stage?

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Psychosexual stage that focuses on the genitals

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What is the Oedipus complex?

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Conflict during the phallic stage in which boys love their mothers romantically and want to eliminate their fathers as rivals

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What is the latency stage?

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Psychosexual stage in which sexual impulses are submerged into the unconscious

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What is the genital stage?

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Psychosexual stage in which sexual impulses awaken and typically begin to mature into romantic attraction toward others

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What are neo-Freudian theories?

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Theories derived from Freud’s model; but that placed less emphasis on sexuality as a driving force in personality and were more optimistic regarding the prospects for long-term personality growth

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What is style of life?

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According to Adler, each person’s distinctive way of achieving superiority

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What is an inferiority complex?

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Feelings of low self-esteem can lead to overcompensation for such feelings

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What is the collective unconscious?

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Our shared storehouse of memories that ancestors have passed down to us across generations

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What are archetypes?

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Cross-culturally universal symbols

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What are social learning theorists

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Theorists who emphasize thinking as a cause of personality

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What is reciprocal determinism?

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Tendency for people to mutually influence each others behaviour

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What is self-actualization?

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Drive to develop our innate potential to the fullest possible extent

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What are conditions of worth?

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Expectations we place on ourselves for appropriate and inappropriate behaviour

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What is peak experience?

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Transcendent moment of intense excitement and tranquillity marked by a profound sense of connection to the world.

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What is factor analysis?

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Statistical technique that analyzes the correlations among responses on personality inventories and other measures

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What are the big five?

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Five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor analyses of personality measures

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What is the lexical approach?

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Approach proposing that the most crucial features of personality are embedded in our language

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What is a structured personality test?

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A paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that respondents answer in one of a few fixed ways

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What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

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widely used structured personality test designed to assess symptoms of mental disorders

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What is the empirical method of test construction?

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Approach to building tests in
which researchers begin with two or more criterion groups and examine which items best distinguish them

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What is face validity?

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The extent to which respondents can tell what the items are measuring

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What is the rational/theoretic method of test construction?

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Approach to building tests that requires test developers to begin with a clear-cut conceptualization of a trait and then write items to access that conceptualization

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What are projective tests?

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Test consisting of ambiguous stimuli that examinees musty interpret or make sense of

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What is a projective hypothesis?

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Hypothesis that in the process of interpreting ambiguous stimuli, examinees project aspects of their personality onto the stimulus

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What is Rorschach Inkblot test?

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A projective test consisting of ten symmetrical inkblots

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What is a thematic apperception test (TAT)?

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Projective test requiring examinees to tell a story in response to ambiguous pictures

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What is Graphology?

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Psychological interpretation of handwriting?

50
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What is the P.T. Barnum effect?

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Tendency of people to accept high base rate descriptions as accurate

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