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Erogenous zones

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Distinct pleasure sensitive areas

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What stage do boys developed desires for mom and girls desires for father

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Phallic stage for boys

Electra complex for girls

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Psychosexual stages

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Oral(1 1/2)- pleasure centers in mouth
Anal(-3)-bowls and bladder elimination
Phallic(-6)- genital pleasure
Latency(-puberty)- dormant sexual feelings
Genital(after puberty) - maturation of sexual interests

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Gender identity

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Sense of being male or female

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According to Freud human personality arises from

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A conflict between our impulse and restraint

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Now freudians

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Freud followers who followed his main ideas of personality structure, unconscious; personality shape in childhood, defense mechanisms

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How did neo freudians feet away from Freud

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Placed more emphasis on the conscious mind role in interpreting experience and in coping with the environment
Second they doubted that sex and aggression were all consuming motivations

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What are faults found with Freuds theory

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It offers only after the fact explanations and repression rarely occurs
Doesn’t support freuds unconscious
But projection and reaction formation n are in false consensus

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What did Freud draw psych attention to

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Unconscious
Struggle cope with anxiety and sexuality
Conflict between biological impulses and social restraints

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10
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False consensus effect

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The tendency to overestimate mate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors

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Who offered a third force perspective

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Abraham Maslow and carl rogers

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What did Maslow propose

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Motivated by hierarchy of needs
Seek self actualization
Self transcendence
He studied healthy creative people

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What did carl rogers do

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People basically good

Growth promoting climate required three conditions: genuine, acceptance, empathy

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14
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How did humanistic psychologists assess a persons sense of self

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Questionnaires that evaluate self concept

Ideally and actually

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Critics of humanistic perspective

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Vague subjective
The individualism can lead to self indulgence, selfishness; and an erosion of moral restraints
Naive- doesn’t appreciate human capacity for evil

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Gordon allport

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Described personality in terms of fundamental traits

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Myers Briggs type indicator

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Sort people according to carl jungs personality types based on responses to 126 questions
Not research instrument

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18
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Factor analysis

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A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of correlated test items that tap basic components of intelligence

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Hans and Sybil Eysenck

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Reduce individual variations into two or three dimensions
Extra version introversion
Emotional stability instability

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20
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Dopamine neural activity is higher in extroverts or introverts

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Extroverts

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Jerome Lagan attributed differences in children’s shyness and inhibition to their

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Autonomic nervous system reactivity

Reactive autonomic greater anxiety and inhibition

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T or f

Personality inventories are scored objectively

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True ,unlike projective tests, but doesn’t guarantee validity

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23
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Big five

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CANOE or OCEAN
Conscientiousness (organized) 
Agreeableness
Neuroticism (calm secure) 
Openness (imaginative)
Extraversion (sociable)
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Big five research questions: how stable are these traits

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Adulthood quite stable

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Big five research questions: how heritable are they

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Generally 50 percent or a tad more

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Big five research questions: do the big five traits predict other personal attributes

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Yes

Ex highly conscientious people earn better high school and university grades

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Barnum effect

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The acceptance of stock positive descriptions

28
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JRR TOLKIEN created what kind of characters

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Personality traits consistent across various times and places

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Luigi Pirandello character

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Personality ever changing, tailored to a particular role or situation

30
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Person situation controversy

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Consistent across various times and places or ever changing personality

31
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T or f

With age personality traits become more stable

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True

32
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Side with Tolkien or Pirandello

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Tolkien

33
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People do not act with predictable consistency but their average outgoingness etc over many situations is predictable t or f

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True

34
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What does music preference say about personality traits

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Classic jazz-open to experience verbally intelligent

Country pop- outgoing cheerful

35
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What does bedrooms and offices say about personality traits

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Display identify and leave behind behavioral residue (laundry or neat desktop)

36
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Personality traits lurk in

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Music preferences
Bedrooms and offices
Personal web sites
Email

37
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Consider three specific ways in which individuals and environments interacts

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Different people chose different environments
Our personalities shape how we interpret and react to events
Our personalities help create situations to which we react

38
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Psychologists have two basic ways to study the effect of personal control

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One-correlate people’s feelings of control with their behaviors and achievements
Two-experiment by raising or lowering people’s sense of control and noting the effects

39
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Self control

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Ability to control impulses and delay gratification

40
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How is self control like a muscle

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Temporarily weakens after exertion
Replenishes with rest
Stronger with exercise
(Roy baumeister)

41
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What does self control require

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Attention and energy

42
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What does increasing control and personal empowerment do

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Improves health and morale

People thrive

43
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Tyranny of choice

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Brings information overload and a greater likelihood that we will feel regret over some of the unchosen options

44
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What does excessive optimism do

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Blinds us to real risk

45
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Positive psychology pillars

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Positive emotions
Positive character
Positive group, community, and culture

46
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To predict behavior what do social cognitive psychologists do

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Observe behavior in realistic situations

Persons past behavior patterns in similar situations

47
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Social cognitive perspective critics

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Fails to appreciate persons inner traits

48
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Possible selves

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Your visions of the self you dream of becoming and self feared

49
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What does low self esteem do

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People made to feel insecure become excessively critical

50
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Self serving bias two points

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People accept more responsibility I for good deeds than for bad and for successes than for failures
Most people see themselves as better than average

51
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Self esteem threatened people with large egos may react

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Violently

52
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Threatened egotism or low self esteem predisposes aggression

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Egotism

53
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Why do so many people disparage themselves

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Are strategic elicit reassuring strokes
Prepare us for possible failure
Frequently pertains to ones old self

54
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Defensive self esteem

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Fragile
Focuses on sustaining self
Makes failures and criticisms feel threatening
Correlates to aggressive antisocial behavior

55
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Secure self esteem

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Less fragile, feel accepted for who we are and not looks wealth and relieves pressures to succeed and enables us to focus beyond oneself