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Archetypes

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An image in the collective unconscious; an innate pattern that influences experience of the real world (anima and shadow)

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Personal unconscious

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That part of the unconscious derived from an individuals experience

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Collective unconscious

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The inherited unconscious (not developed by personal experience)

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Function of mythology

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Contain the wisdom of the ages lying dormant in the brain and offer guidance for human life

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Jung’s center of personality

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The ego is seen as the center of consciousness, whereas the Self is defined as the center of the total personality, which includes consciousness, the unconscious, and the ego; the Self is both the whole and the center.

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Synchronicity

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The principle in which events are determined by transpersonal forces instead of by causes generally understood by science

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Psychological type

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A persons characteristic pattern of major personality dimensions (thinking-feeling, introversion-extroversion, sensation intuition)

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Fully functioning person

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Rogers term for mentally healthy person. Must tune out adverse socialization messages.
Openness to experience, existential living, organismic trust, experiential freedom, creativity

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Actualizing tendency

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The tendency for growth and reaching full potential that is innate in all organisms

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Organismic valuing process

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Inner sense within a person which guides them in the directions of growth and health

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Ideal self

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What a person feels they ought to be like

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Real self

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The self that contains the actualizing tendency

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Unconditional positive regard

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Accepting and valuing a person without requiring particular behaviors as a prerequisite

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Hierarchy of needs

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Ordered progress of motives from basic to physical needs upward to motives of the most developed humans

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Deficiency motivation

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Motivation at lower levels of development

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Being motivation

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Higher level motivation in which the need for self actualization predominates

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B-love

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Non-possessive love, characteristic of a self- actualized person

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D-love

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Selfish love, characteristic of a person who is not self actualized

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Characteristics of self actualized people

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Efficient perception of reality, acceptance, spontaneity, problem centered, private, autonomy, respect, humor, creative

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Peak experience

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Mystical states of consciousness, characteristic of many but not all self actualized people

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Positive psychology

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Emphasizes healthy functioning, with concern for immediate experience and positive emotions

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Enlightenment

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Higher stage of consciousness that results from following the 8 fold path; also can be called awakening

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Four noble truths

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That there is suffering, that it has a cause, that suffering can cease, and that there is a path to end suffering

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Attachment

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Craving for a variety of things, the source of suffering

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Nirvana

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The goal of spiritual development in which there is no attachment, and therefore suffering has ended

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Anatta

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No self; no reality

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Awakening

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A transformation from ordinary consciousness in which a person recognizes the true nature of things and the path to spiritual progress

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Hungry ghosts

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One of several realms of existence in Buddhist teaching, characterized by persistent unsatisfied cravings

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Electicism

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Combining ideas from a variety of theories

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Pluralism

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Coexistence of various theories without attempting to combine them

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Unified theory

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Combines diverse aspects from various approaches, indicating how they are organized and related

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Emergent determinism

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Determinism from higher mental processes in contrast to lower order determinism

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Emic

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An approach that looks at its culture from its own point of view

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Etic

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Prospective of the observer

Theories of Personality (2 decks)

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