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What is Personality?

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An Individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

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What is Reliability?

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Consistency of findings or results of a psychology research study

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What is Validity?

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The data collected is accurate and represents the truth compared to others outside the study

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What is Self-Report Data (S-Data)?

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A Person’s evaluation of his or her own personality

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What are the ADVANTAGES of Self-Report Data (S-Data)?

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  • Large Amounts of Information
  • Access to thoughts, feelings, and intentions
  • Simple and Easy
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What are the DISADVANTAGES of Self-Report Data (S-Data)?

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  • Bias
  • Error
  • To simple and to easy
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What is Informant Data (I-Data)?

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Judgement by knowledgeable informants about general attributes of the Individual’s personality

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What are the ADVANTAGES of Informant Data (I-Data)?

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  • Large amount of Information
  • Real-World Basis
  • Common Sense
  • Definitional Truth
  • Causal Force
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What are the DISADVANTAGES of Informant Data (I-Data)?

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  • Limited Behavioral Information
  • Lack of Access to Private Experience
  • Error (more likely to remember extreme, unusual, or emotionally arousing
  • Bias
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What is Behavioral Observed Data (B-Data)?

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Data taken by observation of anothers behavior and put into numbers

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What are the ADVANTAGES of Behavioral Observed Data (B-Data)?

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  • Range of Context
  • Appearance of objectively
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What are the DISADVANTAGES of Behavioral Observed Data (B-Data)?

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  • Difficult and Expensive
  • Uncertain Interpretation
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What is Life Outcome Data (L-Data)?

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Information about an Individual gathered from their life record or life history

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What are the ADVANTAGES of Life Outcome Data (L-Data)?

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  • Objective and Verifiable
  • Intrinsic Importance
  • Psychological Relevance
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What are the DISADVANTAGES of Life Outcome Data (L-Data)?

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  • Several different factors in the origin of a disorder
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What is Generalizability?

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Measure of how useful the results of a study are for a broader group of people or situations

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What is Effect Size?

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Tells you how meaningful the relationship between variables or the differences between groups is

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What is Moderator Variable?

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The relation between the independent variable and dependent variable changes across levels of the moderator

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What is Cross-Sectional Study?

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Study of personality development in which people of different are assessed at the same time

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What is Cohort Effect?

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People of different ages may differ because they grew up in different social (and perhaps physical) environments

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What is Longitudinal Study?

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Study of one person’s personality over a long period of time

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What is Temperament?

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The term often used for the “personality” of very young, pre-verbal children
- Activity level
- Emotional Reactivity
- Cheerfulness

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What is the Single-Trait Approach?

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Look closely at a single trait
- Self-Monitoring
-Conscientiousness

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What is the Many-Trait Approach?

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Looking at many traits at once. Try to determine which traits correlate with certain behaviors
- Drug and Alcohol use
- Aggression in Adulthood

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What is Essential-Trait Approach?

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Reduce all traits into those that are most essential or most important
- Big Five

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What is Typological Approach?

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Focuses on identifying types of individuals
- each type is characterized by a particular pattern of traits

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What are Hormones?

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A biological chemical that affects parts of the body some distance from there it is produced

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What is the Amygdala?

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Structure located near the base of the brain that is believed to play a role in emotion, especially negative emotions such as anger and fear

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What are Neurotransmitters?

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A chemical that communicates from one neuron to another

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What are Endorphins?

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“pain-killing” chemicals, blocks the transmission of pain messages to the brain

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What is Cortisol?

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  • Chemical released in response to stress
  • Chronically high levels in people with severe stress, anxiety, and depression
  • Low levels related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and sensation seeking
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What is Introspection?

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The task of observing one’s own mental processes

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What is Publication Bias?

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Failingto publish unwanted results of a study to the public; Withholding study results

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What is Experience Sampling?

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Set of data collection methods for gathering systematic self-reports of behaviors, emotions, or experiences as they occur in the individual’s natural environment

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What is Countertransference?

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Therapists independently getting caught up in transferring their own feelings to a client

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What is Catharsis?

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Process of releasing negative emotions such as grief and anger, thereby relieving the adverse psychological impact of these emotions
- Often referred to Venting

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What is Ethnocentrism?

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Seeing the world through a cultural lense

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What are the Big Five?

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O - Openness
C - Conscientiousness
E - Extraversion
A - Agreeableness
N - Neuroticism

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What does “Openness” Tell us about behavior?

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How open-minded, imaginative, creative, and insightful a person is or can be

Represents how willing a person is to try new things

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What does “Conscientiousness” Tell us about behavior?

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Tend to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; they display planned rather than spontaneous behavior

Refers to an individual’s desire to be careful and dilligent

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What does “Extroversion” Tell us about behavior?

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Active people who are sociable, talkative, and assertive

Measures how energetic, outgoing and confident a person is

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What does “Agreeableness” Tell us about behavior?

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A person’s ability to put other people’s needs above their own.

Refers to how an individual interacts with others

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What does “Neuroticism” Tell us about behavior?

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Increases your risk of experiencing negative emotions
- Irritability
- Anxiety
- Self-Doubt
- Depression

Represents how much someone is inclined to experience negative emotions

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What is the Gene-Environment Interaction?

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Interaction between genes and the physical and social environment

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What Factors lead to Publications Bias?

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Researchers often do not submit their negative findings because their research
- “FAILED”
- Could lose their funding

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What is the difference between reliability and validity?

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Reliability measure the precision of a test

Validity looks at accuracy

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What is Trait Approach?

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How people differ psychologically

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What is Biological Approach?

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Understand the mind in terms of the body

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What is Psychoanalytic Approach?

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Focus on the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict

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What is Phenomenological Approach?

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Focuses on peoples conscious experience of the world

  • Humanistic: Understand the meaning and basis of happiness
  • Cross-Cultural: How the experience of reality might be different across cultures
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What is the Learning and Cognitive Processes Approach?

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  • Learning: How behavior changes as a result of rewards, punishment, and other life experiences

-Classic Behaviorism: Focuses on overt behavior

-Social Learning: How observation and self-evaluation determine behavior

  • Cognitive Personality: Focuses on cognitive processes, including perception, memory, and thought
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What is personality assessment?

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Patterns of behavior : Motives, Intentions, goals, strategies, and how people perceive and construct the world

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Personality Tests: Projective Tests

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A personality test in which subjects are shown ambiguous images and asked to interpret them

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Personality Tests: Projective Tests ADVANTAGES

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  • Good for breaking the ice
  • Some skilled clinicians may be able to use them to get information not captured by controlled research
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Personality Tests: Projective Tests DISADVANTAGES

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  • Validity evidence is scarce
  • Expansive and time-consuming
  • Psychologist cannot be sure about what they mean
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Personality Tests: Objective Tests

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Self-reporting system that measures personality traits on “yes” or “no” scale

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Personality Tests: Objective Tests ADVANTAGES

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  • Easy to administer
  • Straightforward
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Personality Tests: Objective Tests DISADVANTAGES

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  • Oversimplifying complex personality traits
  • Results may be distorted by social desirability or lack of self-awareness
  • People may manipulate their responses to present themselves in a better/worse light
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How has Freud contributed to modern psychology?

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Explaining how the right balance between the ID, Ego, and Superego can lead to a healthy personality

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What is Learning?

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The change in behavior as a result or function of experience

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What is Behaviorism?

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A study of how controlled changes to a subject’s environment affect the subject’s observable behavior

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What is Functional Analysis?

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Examines the causes and consequences of behavior

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What is Habituation?

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Simplest form of behavior change as a result of experience

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What is Classic Conditioning?

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The process in which an automatic, conditioned response is paired with a specific stimuli

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What is Learned Helpessness?

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When someone repeatedly faces uncontrollable, stressful situations, then does not exercise control when it becomes available

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What is Respondent Conditioning?

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The Acquisition of knowledge in response to environmental signals

  • Allergies are an example of this
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What is Operant Conditioning?

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Method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior

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What is Reinforcement?

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Increase in behavior

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What is Self-Efficacy?

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The Expectation that one can accomplish something successfully

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What is Self-Concept?

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An overarching idea we have about who we are (physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually)

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What is Observational Learning?

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Method of learning that consists of observing and modeling another individual’s behavior, attitudes, or emotional expression

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What are Goals in psychology?

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The cognitive representation of a desired state

  • The intention of an activity or a plan
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What are Strategies?

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A Planned approach or technique used to influence and modify behavior, thoughts, or emotions

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What is Procedural Knowledge?

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Knowledge exercised in the accomplishment of a task

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What is Declarative Knowledge?

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Facts and information about a topic

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What is Emotional Intelligence?

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The ability to manage both your own emotions and understand the emotions of the people around you

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What is Cognitive Control?

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The Process by which goals or plans influence behavior

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What is Implicit Bias?

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The subconscious feelings, attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes an individual has developed due to prior influences and imprints throughout their lives

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What is Social Learning Theory?

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The philosophy that people can learn from each other through observation, imitation and modeling

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What are Cognitive Theories of Personality?

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Focus on an individual’s self-perception, thoughts, what they value, and attitude toward life events

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What is the Ontological Self?

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A somewhat mysterious entity that does the observing and describing

Experiences life and makes decisions; people differ in level of self-awareness

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What is the Epistemological Self?

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An object that can be observed and described, statements about the self

(I am friendly. I have brown hair.)

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What is Declarative Self?

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All of your conscious knowledge or opinions about your own personality traits

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What is Procedural Self?

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Patterns of behavior that are characteristic of an individual and the behaviors though which people express who they are

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What is Self-Esteem?

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How we value and perceive ourselves

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What is Self Schema?

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All of one’s ideas about the self, organized into coherent systems

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What is Long Term Memory?

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Permanent memory storage

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What is Self-Reference Effect?

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The Enhancement of long-term memory that comes from thinking how information relates to the self

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What is Personality Disorder?

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A mental health condition where people have a lifelong pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems

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What is Ego-Systonic?

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Refers to thoughts, feelings, beliefs, or behaviors that one accepts as part of oneself and DOES NOT WANT TO BE CURED OF; even if others find them difficult

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What is Ego-Dystonic?

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Refers to troubling thoughts, feelings, beliefs, or behaviors that one experiences as alien or foreign and WOULD LIKE TO GET RID OF

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What is the “Bad 5”?

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Negative Affectivity

Detachment

Antagonism

Disinhibition

Psychoticism

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What is Categorial Approach?

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Relies on diagnostic criteria to determine the presence or absence of disruptive or other abnormal behaviors

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The Dimensional Approach?

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5 out of the 8 symptoms to diagnose major depressive disorders

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What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?

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A type of talk therapy for people who experience emotions very intensely

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What are the Similarities and Differences of Behaviorism and Social Learning Therapy?

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Social Learning Theory says internal thoughts impact what behavior response comes out

Behaviorism doesn’t study or feature internal thought processes as an element of action

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What are the Types of Learning?

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Classic Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Observational Learning

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How to Increase Motivation?

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  • Set an actionable goal
  • Surround yourself with supportive people
  • Identify and treat mental health conditions
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What are the stages of emotional experiences?

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Biological Experience (Umwelt)

Social Experience (Mitwelt)

Psychological Experience (Eigenwelt)

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What are the roles of Self?

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  • Self-Esteem
  • Actual Self
  • Ideal Self
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What are Deal Makers in Personality?

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Traits that promote good relationships

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What are Deal Breakers in Personality?

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Traits that prevent or undermine relationships

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What are the different types of Attachment?

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Secure attachment style: Feel confident in their relationship

Anxious attachment styles: Intense fear of rejection and abandonment

Avoidant-Dismissive Attachment style: someone avoiding vulnerability, closeness, and intimate attachment to others

Disorganized attachment style: Extreme desire to be in an intimate relationship while simultaneously being intensely afraid of actually being in such a relationship

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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)?

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Extreme pattern of behavior with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control

At the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency

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What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

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Extremely odd thoughts, strange ideas, unconventional behavior, superstitious beliefs, difficulty with close relationships

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What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?

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Belief one is superior

Expects and needs recognition from others

Expect special treatment and feels entitled

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What is Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD)?

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Disregard and violate the rights of others

-Illegal activity
-Impulse Control Struggles and risky behavior
-Irritable, Aggressive, and Irrisponsible

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What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?

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Long-standing pattern of instability in mood, interpersonal relationships, and self-image

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What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?

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Hypersensitivity to rejection and criticism

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What is Dependent Personality Disorder?

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The longterm pattern of passively allowing others to take responsibility for one’s self

  • Difficulty making everyday decisions
  • Needs others to assume responsibility for most major areas of his or her life
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What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?

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“People are dangerous”

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What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?

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“I need to impress”

Dramatics

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What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?

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“I need plenty of space”

Isolation

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What Major Theories of Personality Disorders did we discuss?

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Psychodynamic: Passively obtain needs and/or ambivalent about choice

Interpersonal: Desperate search for acceptance and approval from others

Cognitive: Self-Schema includes positive and negative thoughts

Biopsychosocial: systematice integration of biological, psychological, and social approaches to the study of mental health and specific mental disorders

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