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Chapter 15 Personality Flashcards

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Analytic Psychology

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Compensatory internal forces in a dynamic balance

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Personality

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An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking

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Anxiety

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Repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness

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Collective Unconscious

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Shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces

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Consistency Paradox

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Personality ratings across time & among different observers are constant

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Defense Mechanisms

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egos protective methods of reducing anxiety

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Displacement

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shifts impulses toward a more acceptable object/person

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Ego

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“executive” part of personality

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Ego Defense Mechanisms

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mental strategies used by the ego to defend itself

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Empirically Derived Test

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test developed by testing a pool of items

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External Locus of Control

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outside forces determine one’s fate

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Five-Factor Model

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maps out the relationship among common traits

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Fixation

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remains attached to objects or activities

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Free Association

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Person relaxes or says whatever comes to mind

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Id

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Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy

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Independent Construals of Self

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Conceptualization of the self as an in individual

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Interdependent Construals of Self

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Conceptualization of the self as part a social relationship

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Internal Locus of Control

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One controls ones own fate

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Learned Helplessness

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Resignation to a repeated aversive event

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Libido

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Energy that drives individuals toward sensual pleasures

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MMPI

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Most widely used personality test

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Oedipus Complex

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Boys desire for mother and jealousy toward father

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Personal Control

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Our sense of controlling our environment

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Personality Inventory

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A questionnaire on which ppl respond to items of wide ranges

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Personality Types

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Used to assign ppl to categories

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Positive Psychology

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Scientific study of optimal human functioning

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Possible Selves

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Ideal selves that a person would like (or not) to become

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Projection

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disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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Projective Test

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provides ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics

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Psychic Determinism

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reactions are determined by previous experiences

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