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CHAPTER 2 Flashcards

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temperament

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enduring characteristics we are born with, including irritability or adaptability

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humanistic perspective

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focuses on the role of each person’s conscious life experiences and choices

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behaviorist perspective

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focuses on environmental influences on personality, and social cognitive theory

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psychodynamic perspective

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began with Sigmund Freud; focuses on the roles of the unconscious and biology

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unconscious

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feelings, memories, thoughts, and urges that cannot be easily brought into consciousness

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preconscious

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resides just beneath the surface of awareness

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conscious

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makes contact with the outside world

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ego

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mostly conscious; rational and logical; works on reality principle

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superego

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moral center of personality; contains the conscience; puts restrictions on how the id’s demands can be met

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id

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most primitive part; completely unconscious; pleasure-seeking; amoral; exists at birth; contains all biological drives; works on pleasure principle

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compensation / substitution

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becoming superior in some areas to make up for lacking in others

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denial

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refusal to acknowledge a situation

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projection

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placing one’s own unacceptable thoughts onto others

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repression

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pushing events or situations out of conscious memory

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identification

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acting like someone else to deal with anxiety

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displacement

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expressing feelings onto a less threatening substitute

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reaction formation

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forming a response that is the opposite of one’s unacceptable actual thoughts

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rationalization

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making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behaviors

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sublimation

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turning socially unacceptable urges into acceptable behaviors

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regression

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coping with stress by reverting to childlike patterns

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Conflicts that are not resolved can become

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fixations

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oral stage (0-18 months)

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mouth; conflict over weaning; associated with overeating or drinking, chain smoking, talking too much, gum chewing, dependence/optimism or aggression/pessimism

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anal stage (18-36 months)

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anus; conflict over toilet training; associated with anal expulsive or anal retentive personalities

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phallic stage (3-6 years)

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phallus; conflict over sexual feelings of the child; associated with Oedipus/Electra complex, castration anxiety and penis envy

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latency stage (6 years to puberty)

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associated with hidden sexual feelings

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genital stage (puberty on)

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entry into adult social and sexual behavior

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neo Freudians put more focus on the workings of the unconscious mind, the development of the personality, and the therapy based, which is called?

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Psychoanalysis

28
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the collective unconscious contains universal human memories called

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archetypes

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Alfred Adler believed what affected a child’s personality

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birth order

30
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Karen Horney suggested that there was a male equivalent to penis envy known as

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womb envy

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Horney argued that Children with poor upbringings would develop what type of personality?

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NEUROTIC

32
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which theories are less concerned with the explanation of personality development and changing personality than they are with describing and predicting behavior based on that description?

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trait theories

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what do Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers have in common

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they believe that each human being is free to choose his or her own destiny

34
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what are the big 5 personality traits

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openness, conscientious, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness and extraversion

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which researcher would likely attribute antisocial behaviors with a neurotic personality, stemming from basic anxiety ?

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karen horney

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Extraversion

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dimension of personality referring to one’s need to be with other people

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extroverts

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people who are outgoing and sociable.

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Neo-Freudism

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were followers of Freud who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis.

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Carl Jung

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developed a theory of a collective unconscious

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erik erikson

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developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire life span.

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halo effect

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is the tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client’s behavior and statements.

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Projective Tests

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are personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind.

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