D

Question 1

An existential term meaning a sense of self as a free and responsible person whose existence is embedded in the world of things, of people, and of self-awareness

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Dasein

Question 2

Approach to factor analytical theories of personality that gathers data on the basis of previously determined hypotheses or theories, reasoning from the general to the particular

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Deductive method

Question 3

Techniques such as repression, reaction formation, sublimation, and the like, whereby the ego defends itself against the pain of anxiety

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Defense mechanism (freud)

Question 4

Protection of the self-concept against anxiety and the threat by denial and distortion of experiences that are inconsistent with it

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Defensiveness (roger)

Question 5

A reference to the observation that some people some of the time will prefer more valued delayed rewards over lesser valued immediate ones

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Delay of gratification

Question 6

The blocking of an experience or some aspect of an experience from awareness because it is inconsistent with the self-concept

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Denial (rogers)

Question 7

Adlerian safeguarding tendency whereby another’s achievements are undervalued and one’s own are overvalued

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Depreciation

Question 8

Feelings of anxiety over losing a loved object coupled with a sense of guilt for wanting to destroy that object

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Depressive position (klein)

Question 9

The process of removing respect, joy, awe, and rapture from an experience, which then purifies or objectifies that experience

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Desacralization (maslow)

Question 10

Method of escaping from freedom by eliminating people or objects, thus restoring feelings of power

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Destructiveness (fromm)

Question 11

Eysenck accepted this model of psychiatric-illness, which suggests that some people are vulnerable to illness because they have both genetic and an acquired weakness that predisposes them to an illness

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Diathesis-stress model

Question 12

Kelly’s assumption that people construe events in an either/or (dichotomous) manner

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Dichotomy corollary

Question 13

The displacement or diffusion of responsibility for the injurious effects of one’s actions

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Disengagement of internal control (bandura)

Question 14

A freudian defense mechanism in which unwanted urges are redirected onto other objects or people in order to disguise the original impulse

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Displacements

Question 15

The process of separating unwanted impulses, desires, and needs from the self-system

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Dissociation (sullivan)

Question 16

Misinterpretation of an experience so that it is seen as fitting into some aspect of the self-concept

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Distortion (rogers)

Question 17

Deficiency love or affection (attachment) based on the lover’s specific deficiency and the loved one’s ability to satisfy that deficit

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D-love (maslow)

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The therapeutic procedure designed to uncover unconscious material by having a patient free associate to dream images

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Dream analysis (freud)

Question 19

Relatively consistent patterns of action that characterize the person throughout a lifetime. Similar to traits or habit patterns

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Dynamisms (sullivan)

Question 20

Erikson’s term for the negative element in each pair of opposites that characterizes the eight stages of development

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Dystonic

Question 21

McCrae and costa’s term for the interconnectedness of central and peripheral components of personality

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Dynamic processes