Personality

Question 1

Personality Type A

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Competitive, hate failure, time conscious, super motivated, assertive, reactive.

Question 2

Personality Type B

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Patient, easygoing, steady, prefer the game itself, apathetic, disengaged.

Question 3

Personality

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Psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual’s behavior in different situations and at different times.

Question 4

Personality theory

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An attempt to describe, explain and tie together all of the influences on an individual’s thoughts and behaviors.
» Cervone + Shoda 1999

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Trait

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Relatively stable and enduring characteristics that guide our actions and thoughts.

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The Five-Factor Theory (OCEAN)

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The most widely accepted personality theory that states the personality can be boiled down to five core factors, known by the acronym OCEAN.
On a scale continuum.

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Openness (OCEAN)

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Inquiring and curious - closed to new experiences

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Conscientiousness (OCEAN)

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Dependability, consciousness, perseverance - impulsiveness, carelessness, irresponsibility

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Extraversion (OCEAN)

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Assertiveness, sociability, boldness - introverted, reserved

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Agreeableness (OCEAN)

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Conformity, likability, helpful - suspicious, uncooperative, negativity

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Neuroticism (OCEAN)

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Anxious, emotional, pessimistic - calm, confident, emotional stability

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MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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A 567 item true/false self-report measure of an adult’s psychological state. There are nine validity scales, assessing for lying, defensiveness, faking good/faking bad amongst other assessments.

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Psychoanalytic Theory

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Emphasizes the importance of early childhood experience and effects of conflict between conscious and unconscious forces using a personality structure.

Question 14

ID

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To pursue pleasure and satisfy biological drives of aggression and sexual desire.
(Libido driven; unconscious; stores repressed memories)
{Seeking pleasure, pleasure principle}

Question 15

EGO

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To find safe, acceptable ways of satisfying the ID and the superego.
(Executive, reasonable, logical, rational; conscious; peacekeeper)
{Functioning in the world, reality principle}

Question 16

SUPEREGO

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Applying moral values and standards.
(Storehouse 4 values and moral attitudes learned from parents and society; unconscious)
{Playing by the rules, conscious principle}

Question 17

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages of Development

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Successive, instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times in life in which develop fixated personality issues.

Question 18

The Oral Stage

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When: Birth to 1 year
Where: Pleasure seeking is centered on the mouth (sucking, chewing, spitting, babbling)
Challenge: Overcoming dependency
Fixated: Oral Receptive Personality

Question 19

Oral Receptive Personality

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Smoking, nail-biting, chewing, gluttony, obesity, gullible.

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The Anal Stage

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When: 1 to 3 years
Where: Pleasure seeking is focused on the anus and bladder; the function of elimination
Challenge: Self control
Fixated: Anal Retentive, Anal expulsive

Question 21

Anal retentive

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Excessive cleanliness, stinginess, aloofness

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Anal expulsive

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Messiness, temper tantrums, destructiveness

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The Phallic Stage

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When: 3 to 6 years
Where: Pleasure seeking is centered on the genitals
Challenge: To overcome the Oedipus/Electra Complex
Fixated: Jealous, problems with parents, sexual conquests, penis envy

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Oedipus/Electra

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The desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex.

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The Latency Stage

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When: 6 to 11 years
What: Repression of sexual thought, engaging in nonsexual activities
Challenge: Consciously learning modesty and shame; Unconsciously dealing with repressed Oedipus/Electra complex
Fixated: Excessively modest

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The Genital Stage

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When: 11 years through adulthood
What: Renewed sexual desires that we seek to fulfill through adult relationships with people who are NOT our parents.

Question 27

Projection

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The process of displacing one’s unacceptable impulses or feelings onto someone else

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Denial

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Avoidance by denying the problems existence

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Rationalization

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Supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason for an action

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Reaction formation

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Acting an exact opposition of true feelings

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Displacement

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Taking out impulses on a less threatening target

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Regression

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Adopting immature behaviors that were effective coping skills when younger

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Freudian Slip

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Mistakes or slips of the tongue that we make an everyday speech; such mistakes are thought to reflect unconscious thoughts or wishes

Question 34

Defense mechanisms

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Unconscious mental strategies that reduce the experience of anxiety and conflicts. Aids in pushing extreme desires, and threatens memories into the unconscious