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Chapter 14- Personality Flashcards

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Defense mechanism

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in denial, acting the opposite of how you feel

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victorian era

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1837-1901, a time of extreme sexual repression

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Sigmund Freud

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a doctor/pschyciatris who discussed sexual urges and broke the repressed social norm

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Projection

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taking bad things about you and putting it on someone else

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people in general have a fear of_____ and _____

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punishment and abandonement

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Structures of the personality

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ID, Ego, Superego

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ID

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natrual urges and drives we’ve had since birth (natural man instincts, eating drinking, needs instant gratification)

shoulder devil

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Ego

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mediator/compromisor between ID and Superego/bridge builder

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Reality principle

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asses the world accordingly and act in regulation

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Superego

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rules, thoughts, values or conscious (something that is taught by parents or society)

shoulder angel

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you are hungry and see your sisters wedding cake. What does ID, Ego, and Superego do?

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ID- wants to eat came
Superego- you shouldn’t do that, she will be mad
Ego- eat a fruitsnack instead of the cake

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Fixation

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Too much or too little stimulation can cause the child to remain in one of the psychosexual stages

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Erogenous zones

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area of the child’s body that is susceptible to sexual stimulation

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Psychosexual stages of development

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Oral, Anus, Phallic, Latency, Genital

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Oral Stage

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0-18 months
putting things in the mouth

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Anus stage

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2-3 years
focus on pooping and farting

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Anal retensive

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clean freaks, holds poop in

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Anal explosive

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messy, made accidents

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Phallic stage

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3-6 years
genital is the focus, life is dominated by pleasure and pain and moods

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oedipus complex

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phallic stage, child wants parent sexually and finds a future partner like their parent

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castration anxiety

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phallic stage, male child’s fear of loosing genitals as punishment for trying to overpower father

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electra complex

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phallic stage, daughter is possisive of father, doesn’t like mom

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Latency stage

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5/6-13 years
focuses on intellect, social skills, creativity, no erogenous zone, fixation is either work or play

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Genital Stage

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13-death, where you become theoretically balanced in the erogenous zones

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Critisisms of Freud

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not scientific, hard to measure ID Ego and Superego, no predictive value, “explains everything so it explains nothing”, emphasis on sexuality is super strong

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Repression

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defense mechanism, motivated forgetting/putting bad things out of mind

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Rationalization

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defense mechanism, justification

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Reaction formation

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defense mechanism, you portray opposite feelings and behavior to hide your true feelings for someone

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Displacement

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defense mechanism, taking anger out on less threatening object other than the thing we are actually mad at
(ex: mad at boss but can’t loose job so beats kids)

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Identification

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defense mechanism, taking on characteristics/values of opressor
ex: bully becomes a bully

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stockholm syndrome

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when victims of kidnapping sympathtize/encourage captor, not common

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Sublimation

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defense mechanism, turning unacceptable urges to productive, acceptable activities
ex: wanting to beat someone up, becoming a professional cage fighter

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Personality

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trait/characteristics

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personality theorist

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a person’s personality makes them behave consistantly across experiences and situations

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trait

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the thing that makes us consistent in different situations

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Grodon Allport

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said there were 18,000 personality traits from a dictionary

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Cattell

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said 2/3 traits existed

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Big 5 Persoanlity Inventory

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OCEAN, high score means you have it, low scores means you don’t

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O in OCEAN

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oppensess (new experiences or comfort)

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C in OCEAN

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C- concsientiousness (detailed and cautious or reckless)

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E in OCEAN

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extraversion (outgoing, reserved)

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A in OCEAN

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A- agreeable (peaceful, making drama)

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N in OCEAN

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Neurotisism (low confidence, hgih confidence)

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self-reports

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a patient reports their own symptooms, emotions, life style happiness, etc.

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Probelms of self reports

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people can lie, people can forget

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Thematic apperception test

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projective test that makes the patient tell a story to the lsitener. This story will most often have elements of their personal life

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Problem with Thematic apperception tests

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Therapists are not free of bias. Patients can act like the test for the theraptist to analyze and put in interpretations from out own life

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social cognative approach-

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to understand personality, whe have to consider situations and peoples reactions to those situations

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Person-situation controversy

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Is behavior caused by personality or situation?

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humanistic psychology

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self actualization

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Abraham Maslow explained humanistic personality through people being their real self and meeting their full potential

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Abraham Maslows

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free will, taking responsibility for behavior, can’t progress until you meet survival milestones, self actualization

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humanistic theories

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free will and self development are critical to develop the personality

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self concept

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how someone thinks of themself, “who am I?”

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Carlo Rogers

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believed that person centered therapy and always supporting someone will help them find their true self

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existential psychology

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life is about finding meaning in suffering, be concerned with “how do I get through this” instead of “why is this happening”

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Internal LOC

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I have control over my life

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External LOC

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I have no control over my life

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locus of control

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the belief of how much control someone has over situations

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outcome expectancies

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anticipated consequences (positive or negative) as a result of engaging in a behavior

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self serving bias

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we attribute positive outcomes to ourselves but negative outcomes to others

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humanistic psychology

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believes that people are good and should reach their full potential,

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Viktor Frankil

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saw people lived or died, people survived who had meaning, didn’t like the Americans drive for happiness because without happiness you look for happiness, “the key to a happy life is to have no expectations”

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Gordan Allport

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belived 18000 traits existed

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Cattell

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narrowed traits down to 2-3

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