Important terms to know Flashcards
Ability traits
Traits that describe our skills and how efficiently we will be able to work toward our goals.
Actualization Tendency
The basic human motivation to actualize, maintain, and enhance the self.
Aggressive personality
The compulsion to destroy, conquer and kill.
Analytical psychology
Jung’s theory of personality
Anima archetype; animus archetype
Feminine aspects of the male psyche; masculine aspects of the female psyche.
Anxiety
To Freud, a feeling of fear and dread without an obvious cause, reality anxiety is a fear of tangible dangers, neurotic anxiety involves a conflict between id and superego.
Archetypes
Images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious.
Basic anxiety
A pervasive feeling of loneliness and helplessness; the foundation of neurosis
Basic strengths
To Erikson, motivating characteristics and beliefs that derive from the satisfactory resolution of the crisis at each developmental stage.
Basic weakness
To Erikson, motivating characteristics that derive from the unsatisfactory resolution of the developmental crisis.
Behavior modification
A form of therapy that applies the principles of reinforcement to bring about desired behavioral changes.
Behavioral genetics
The study of the relationship between genetic or hereditary factors and personality traits.
Behaviorism
The school of psychology founded by John B. Watson that focuses on psychology as the study of overt behavior rather than of mental processes.
Cardinal traits
The most pervasive and powerful human traits.
Case Study
A detailed history of an individual that contains data from a variety of sources.
