Chapter 6 - Identity and Personality Flashcards

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Self-concept

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Awareness of ourselves as distinct from others and answers to the question “who am I”?

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Identity

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Individual components of our self-concept

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Self-schema

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Self-given label that carries set of qualities

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Androgyny

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Being simultaneously very masculine and very feminine

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Undifferentiated gender identity

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Low masculine and feminine scores

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Ethnic identity

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Membership in a particular racial/ethnic group
- common ancestry, cultural heritage, and language

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Nationality

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Political borders; where we are born
- shared history, media, cuisine, symbols

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Hierarchy of salience

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Situation dictates which identity holds the most importance at a given moment

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Self-discrepancy theory

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Each of us has 3 selves and that perceived differences between these selves leads to negative feelings

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Actual self

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See ourselves as we currently are

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Ideal self

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Who we would like to be

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Ought self

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Way others think we should be

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Locus of control

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Way we characterize influences in our lives
- internal and external

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Freud: Psychosocial Development

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Believed that libidinal energy and the drive to reduce libidinal tension were the underlying dynamic forces that accounted for human psychological processes
- 5 stages

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Oral stage

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Freudian stage
- 0-1 year
- libidinal energy centered on mouth
- oral fixation can lead to excessive dependency

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Anal stage

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Freudian stage
- 1-3 years
- libido centered on anus
- fixation can lead to excessive orderliness or sloppiness

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Phallic stage

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Freudian stage
- 3-5 years
- Oedipal and Electra conflicts
- Subliminates libidinal energy

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Latency stage

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Freudian stage
- lasts until end of puberty

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Genital stage

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Freudian stage
- puberty-adulthood
- enter into heterosexual relationships

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Erikson: Psychosocial Development

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Personality development is driven by the successful resolution of a series of social and emotional conflicts
- 8 stages

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Trust vs. mistrust

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Erikson
- 0-1 year
- learn trust

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autonomy vs shame and doubt

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Erikson
- 1-3 year
- exert control, exercise choice and self-restraint

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Initiative vs guilt

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Erikson
- 3-6 years
- sense of purpose, initiate activities, enjoy accomplishment

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Industry vs Inferiority

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Erikson
- 6-12 years
- feel competent, exercise abilities and intelligence in the world, affect worls they desire

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Identity vs Role confusion

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Erikson
- 12-20 years
- fidelity, ability to see oneself as unique and integrated

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Intimacy vs isolation

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Erikson
- 20-40 years
- love, intimate relationships, commitment

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Generativity vs stagnation

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Erikson
- 40-65 years
- productive, caringm and contributing member of society

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Integrity vs despair

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Erikson
- wisdom, integrity, life has been worthwhile

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Kohlberg: Moral reasoning

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As cognitive abilities grow, we are able to think about the world in more complex and nuanced ways
- 3 phases

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Preconventional morality

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Obedience: avoiding punishments
Self-interest: gaining rewards

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Conventional morality

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Conformity: seeks approval of others
Law and order: social order in highest regard

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Postconventional morality

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Social contract: moral rules as conventions that are designed to ensure the greater good
Universal human ethics: decisions should be made in consideration of abstract principles

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Zone of Proximal Development

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Skills and abilities that have not yet fully developed but are in the process of development
- Vygotsky

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Theory of mind

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Ability to sense how another’s mind works

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Looking-glass self

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Our understanding of how others see us

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Reference group

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Group we use as a standard to evaluate ourselves

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Personality

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Set of thoughts, feelings, traits, and behaviors that are characteristic of an individual across time and location

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Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Unconscious internal states that motivate the overt actions of individuals and determine personality

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Id

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Basic, primal, inborn urges to survive and reproduce
- Pleasure principle
- Primary process

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Pleasure principle

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Achieve immediate gratification to relieve pent-up tension

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Primary process

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Id’s response to frustration based on the pleasure principle

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Ego

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Organizer of the mind
- Reality principle
- Secondary process

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Reality principle

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Postpone pleasure principle until satisfaction can be obtained

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Secondary process

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Guidance of id and id’s pleasure prinicple

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Superego

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Personality’s perfectionist
- Conscience
- Ego ideal

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Conscience

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Collection of the improper actions for which a child is punished

47
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Ego-ideal

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Proper actions for which a child is rewarded

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Defense Mechanisms

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Ego’s recourse for relieving anxiety caused by the clash of the id and superego
- Deny, falsify, or distort reality then operate unconsciously
- 8 mechanisms

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Repression

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Forcing undesired thoughts and urges to the unconscious

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Suppression

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Deliberate, conscious form of forgetting

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Regression

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Reversion to earlier developmental state

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Reaction Formation

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Suppress urges by unconsciously converting these urges into their opposites

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Projection

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Attribute undesired feelings to others

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Rationalization

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Justification of behaviors in a manner that is acceptable to self and society

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Displacement

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Transference of an undesired urge from one person or object to another

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Sublimation

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Transformation of unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behaviors

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Persona

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Aspect of our personality we present to the world

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Anima

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man’s inner woman

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Animus

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woman’s inner man

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Shadow

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Unpleasant and socially reprehensible thoughts, feelings, and actions experiences in the unconscious mind

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Inferiority Complex

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Individual’s sense of incompleteness, imperfection, and inferiority

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Creative self

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Force by which individual’s shape their uniqueness and establish their personality

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Style of Life

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Manifestation of the creative self and describes a person’s unique way of achieving superiority

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Fictional Finalism

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Individuals are motivated more by their expectations of the future than by past experiences

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Force Field Theory

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One’s current state of mind is the sum of the forces on the individual at that time

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Type theorists

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Create taxonomy of personality traits

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Trait theorists

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Individual personality as the sum of a person’s characteristic behaviors

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Openness

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Willingness to engage with the world and desire to try new things

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Conscientiousness

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Self-control

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Extraversion

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Tolerance for social interaction and stimulation

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Agreeableness

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Degree to which a person is concerned about maintaining peace and harmony in their interactions with others

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Neuroticism

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Emotional arousal in stressful situations

72
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Reciprocal Determinism

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Refers to the idea that our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and environment all interact with eachother to determine our actions in a given situation