Chapter 15 Personality Flashcards
Analytic Psychology
Compensatory internal forces in a dynamic balance
Personality
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking
Anxiety
Repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness
Collective Unconscious
Shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces
Consistency Paradox
Personality ratings across time & among different observers are constant
Defense Mechanisms
egos protective methods of reducing anxiety
Displacement
shifts impulses toward a more acceptable object/person
Ego
“executive” part of personality
Ego Defense Mechanisms
mental strategies used by the ego to defend itself
Empirically Derived Test
test developed by testing a pool of items
External Locus of Control
outside forces determine one’s fate
Five-Factor Model
maps out the relationship among common traits
Fixation
remains attached to objects or activities
Free Association
Person relaxes or says whatever comes to mind
Id
Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy
Independent Construals of Self
Conceptualization of the self as an in individual
Interdependent Construals of Self
Conceptualization of the self as part a social relationship
Internal Locus of Control
One controls ones own fate
Learned Helplessness
Resignation to a repeated aversive event
Libido
Energy that drives individuals toward sensual pleasures
MMPI
Most widely used personality test
Oedipus Complex
Boys desire for mother and jealousy toward father
Personal Control
Our sense of controlling our environment
Personality Inventory
A questionnaire on which ppl respond to items of wide ranges
Personality Types
Used to assign ppl to categories
Positive Psychology
Scientific study of optimal human functioning
Possible Selves
Ideal selves that a person would like (or not) to become
Projection
disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others
Projective Test
provides ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics
Psychic Determinism
reactions are determined by previous experiences
