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The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave

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PERSONALITY

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Value judgments made about a person’s moral and ethical behavior

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CHARACTER

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The enduring characteristics with which each person is born

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TEMPERAMENT

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Four Perspectives in Study of Personality

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  • PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE
  • BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE
  • HUMAINISTIC PERSPECTIVE
  • TRAIT PERSPECTIVE
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The founder of the psychoanalytic movement in psychology

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SIGMUND FREUD

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Where and when men were supposedly unable to control their “animal” desires; a good Victorian husband would father several children with his wife and then turn to a mistress for sexual comfort, leaving his virtuous wife untouched

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Europe during the Victorian Age

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Divisions of Consciousness

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  • CONSCIOUS MIND
  • PRECONSCIOUS MIND
  • UNCONSCIOUS MIND
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Level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious

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PRECONSCIOUS MIND

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Level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions

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CONSCIOUS MIND

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Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness are kept

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UNCONSCIOUS MIND

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How does unconscious mind can be revealed

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Dreams and Freudian slips of the tongue

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Freud’s Theory: Parts of Personality

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  • ID
  • EGO
  • SUPEREGO
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Part of the personality present at birth; completely unconscious

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ID

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The instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society’s standards for behavior

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LIBIDO

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Principle by which the id functions; the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences

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PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

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Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality; mostly conscious, rational, and logical

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EGO

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Principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result

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REALITY PRINCIPLE

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Part of the personality that acts as a moral center

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SUPEREGO

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Part of the superego that contains the standards for moral behavior

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EGO IDEAL

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Art of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how well behavior matches or does not match the ego ideal

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CONSCIENCE

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Unconscious distortions of a person’s perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety

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PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISM

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The person refuses to acknowledge or recognize a threatening situation

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DENIAL

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The person refuses to consciously remember a threatening or unacceptable event, instead pushing those events into the unconscious mind

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REPRESSION

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The person invents acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior

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RATIONALIZATION

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Unacceptable or threatening impulses or feelings are seen as originating with someone else, usually the target of the impulses or feeling

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PROJECTION

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The person forms an emotional or behavioral reaction opposite to the way he or she really feels in order to keep those true feelings hidden from self and others

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REACTION FORMATION

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Redirecting feelings from a threatening target to a less threatening one

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DISPLACEMENT

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The person falls back on childlike patterns of responding in reaction to stressful situations

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REGRESSION

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The person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety

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IDENTIFICATION

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The person makes up for deficiencies in one area by becoming superior in another area

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COMPENSATION (SUBSTITUTION)

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Channeling socially unacceptable impulses and urges into socially acceptable behavior

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SUBLIMATION

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If the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, it will result in personality traits and behaviors associated with that earlier stage

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FIXATION

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Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child

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PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES

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First stage, occurring in the first year of life, in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict; id dominated

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ORAL STAGE

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Second stage, occurring between about one and three years of age; the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is the source of conflict; ego develops

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ANAL STAGE

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A person fixated in the anal stage who is messy, destructive, and hostile

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ANAL EXPULSIVE PERSONALITY

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A person fixated in the anal stage who is neat, fussy, stingy, and stubborn

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ANAL RETENTIVE PERSONALITY

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Third stage, occurring from about three to six years of age; the child discovers sexual feelings; superego develops

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PHALLIC STAGE

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Situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent

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OEDIPUS COMPLEX

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A similar process for girls

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ELECTRA COMPLEX

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Fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways

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LATENCY STAGE

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During and after puberty, sexual feelings reawaken with appropriate targets

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GENITAL STAGE

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Followers of Freud who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis

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NEO-FREUDIANS

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Developed a theory including both a personal and a collective unconscious

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Jung’s name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud

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PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS

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The memories shared by all members of the human species

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COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

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Collective, universal human memories

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ARCHETYPES

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Proposed that feelings of inferiority are the driving force behind personality

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ALFRED ADLER

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Developed birth order theory

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ALFRED ADLER

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Developed a theory based on basic anxiety; rejected the concept of penis envy

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KAREN HORNEY

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Anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults

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BASIC ANXIETY

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The result of less secure upbringings and paired with maladaptive ways of dealing with relationships

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NEUROTIC PERSONALITITES

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

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ERIK ERIKSON

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Behaviorists define personality as a set of learned responses or habits

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Well-learned response that has become automatic

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Social cognitive learning theorists emphasize the importance of:

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the influences of other people’s behavior
– the influence of a person’s own expectancies on learning

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Learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory, and imitation of models

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SOCIAL COGNITIVE VIEW

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Bandura’s explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior

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RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM

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An individual’s perception of how effective a behavior will be in any particular circumstance (not the same as self-esteem)

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SELF-EFFICACY

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Rotter’s Social Learning Theory

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LOCUS OF CONTROL
EXPECTANCY

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The “third force” in psychology

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HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE

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Focuses on those aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such a subjective feelings and freedom of choice

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HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE

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The striving to fulfill one’s innate capacities and capabilities

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SELF-ACTUALIZING TENDENCY

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The image of oneself that develops from interactions with important, significant people in one’s life

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SELF-CONCEPT

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Self-archetype that works with the ego to manage other archetypes and balance the personality

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SELF-CONCEPT

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One’s perception of actual characteristics, traits, and abilities

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One’s perception of whom one should be or would like to be

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IDEAL SELF-

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Warmth, affection, love, and respect that come from significant others in one’s life

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POSITIVE REGARD

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Positive regard that is given without conditions or strings attached

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UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

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Positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish

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CONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

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Positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish

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CONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

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A person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urges and feelings

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FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON

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Theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behavior

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TRAIT THEORIES

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A consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving

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Allport first developed a list of about ____ traits; he believed that these traits were part of the nervous system

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____-reduced the number of traits to between sixteen and twenty-three with a computer method called factor analysis

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developed the 16PF test

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Aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person

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SURFACE TRAITS

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The more basic traits that underlie the surface traits, forming the core of personality

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SOURCE TRAITS

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Describes five basic trait dimensions

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FIVE FACTOR MODEL

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Willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences

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The care a person gives to organization and thoughtfulness of others; dependability

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CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

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One’s need to be with other people

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EXTRAVERSION

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The emotional style of a person that may range from easygoing, friendly, and likeable to grumpy, crabby, and unpleasant

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AGREEABLENESS

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Degree of emotional instability or stability

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NEUROTICISM

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The particular circumstances of any given situation will influence the way in which a trait is expressed

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TRAIT SITUATION INTERACTION

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The study of the relationship between heredity and personality

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BEHAVIORAL GENETICS

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How much some trait within a population can be attributed to genetic influences, and the extent individual genetic variation impacts differences in observed
behavior

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HERITABILITY

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Personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion

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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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HALO EEFECT

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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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PROJECTIVE TEST

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Projective test that uses ten inkblots as the ambiguous stimuli

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RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST

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Projective test that uses twenty pictures of people in ambiguous situations as the visual stimuli

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THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST

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the professional observes the client engaged in ordinary, day-to-day behavior in either a clinical or natural setting

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DIRECT OBSERVATION

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a numerical value is assigned to specific behavior that is listed in the scale

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RATING SCALE

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assessment in which the frequency of a particular behavior is counted

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FREQUENCY COUNT

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Paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking the test

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PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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Based on the five factor model

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based on Jung’s theory of personality types

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MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR

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Designed to detect abnormal behavior or thinking patterns in personality

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