Identity and Personality (Ch. 6)

Question 1

Ideal self vs Ought Self

Answer 1

Who we want to be vs who others want us to be

Question 2

Degree to which we see ourselves being capable at a given skill or given situation, our ability to succeed

Answer 2

Self efficacy

Question 3

A self evaluation that refers to the way we characterize the influences in our lives, internal means result of your actions, and external means outside factors contribute to the results

Answer 3

Locus of Control

Question 4

A self-given label that carries a set of qualities, ex. an athlete carries qualities of fitness and youth

Answer 4

Self-Schema

Question 5

Individual components of our self concept related to what group we belong in

Answer 5

Identity

Question 6

Let the situation dictate which identity hold the most importance to us at any given moment

Answer 6

Hierarchy of Salience

Question 7

Self-discrepancy theorem

Answer 7

3 types of selves: actual, ideal, and ought

Question 8

A natural energy source that fuels mechanisms of mind, strive to reduce it

Answer 8

Libido

Question 9

Freud’s Stages

Answer 9

Question 10

Erikson’s Stages of Development

Answer 10

Question 11

Kohlberg’s Moral Stages

Answer 11

Question 12

Skills and ablilities that have not yet fully developed but are in the process of development

Answer 12

Zone of Proximal Development

Question 13

How another person is interpreting a story while you tell it.

Answer 13

Theory of Mind

Question 14

How others precive us

Answer 14

Looking-glass self

Question 15

Freud’s Personality Theory

Answer 15

Id- basic prinicples to survive (primary process is driving to get what you want no matter what)

Ego- takes into account reality, can’t pleasure instantly (secondary process is where the pleasure can be postponed)

Superego - personality perfectionist, conscience(punishment) and ego-ideal(reward)

Question 16

Sense of how another’s mind works

Answer 16

Theory of Mind

Question 17

Others reflecting our selves back to ourselves

Answer 17

Looking-Glass Slef

Question 18

Defense Mechanisms of class between id and superego

Answer 18

Repression, Regression, Projection, Reaction Formation, Rationalization, Displacement, Sublimation

Question 19

Powerful system that is shared among all humans and considered to redifue of experiences of our early ancestor

Answer 19

Collective Unconsious

Question 20

Likened to a mask that we wear in public, part of our personality that we present to the world. Adaptive to our social interactions, emphasizing those qualities that improve social standing and supressing our other less desirable qualities

Answer 20

Persona

Question 21

Archetype is responsible for the appearance of unpleasent and socually reprehensible thoughts, feelings, and actions in our consiousness

Answer 21

Shadow

Question 22

Man’s inner woman

Answer 22

Anima

Question 23

Woman’s inner man

Answer 23

Animus

Question 24

Individual is motivated more by his expectations of the future than by past experiences

Answer 24

Functional Finalism

Question 25

An individual's sense of imcompleteness, imperfection, and inferiority both physically and socially

Answer 25

Inferiority Complex

Question 26

Personality types based on body types

Answer 26

Somatotypes

Question 27

Behavior continues despite satisfaction of the drive that originally created the behavior

Answer 27

Functional Autonomy

Question 28

Practitioners tend to take a holistic view of the self rather than reducing to individual behaviors and drives

Answer 28

Gestalt Therapy