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personality

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someone’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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free association

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patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality and associated treatment

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id

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unconscious wants

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ego

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balance between what you want and what you should do

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superego

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what you should do

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psychosexual stages

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oral
anal
phallic
latency
genital

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oral stage

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(0-18 months) mouth fixatin

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anal stage

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(18 months- 3yrs) control of bladder

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phallic stage

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(3 - 6yrs) first sexual desires towards parents

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latency

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(6-puberty) no sexual feelings

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genital stage

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(puberty-) sexual interests

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Oedipus complex

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hate dad in love with mom

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Electra complex

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hate mom in love with dad

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Fixation

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stuck in a psychosexual stage
EX. Sucking thumb.

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Defense mechanisms

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Tactics to reduce/redirect, anxiety by distorting reality

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Psychodynamic theories

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are behavior emerges from the interaction of conscious and unconscious mind (Freud)

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collective unconscious

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(Jung) a shared, inherited Reservoir of memory traces from our species history
EX. God.

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Projective tests

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“ psychological x-ray“ we are test takers have to come up with a story about a stimulus EX. A picture.

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The thematic apperception test (TAT)

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A person use a picture and comes up with a story
– Can tell hopes, desires, fears

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rorschach inkblot test

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People describe what they see in various ink blots

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False consensus

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Over estimating the extent to which other share our beliefs and behaviors

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Terror management theory

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Theory of death related to anxiety

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Repression

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Pushing conflict out of awareness

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rationalization

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Justifying why something isn’t bad

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Projection

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senior insecurities in others

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regression

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Going back to you earlier stages in development
-Sucking thumb and nervous

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displacement

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Taking out anger on someone else

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Supplementation

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putting regressive impulses into something acceptable
EX. Take aggression out and sports.

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Reaction formation

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Be really nice to someone because you hate them

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Denial

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Refusing to accept the situation in the short term

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ways to tell personality through psychoanalysis

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Dreams
Freudian slips

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Manifest

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Your actual dream

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Latent dream

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Meaning of the dream

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transference

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Transferring an issue to someone similar
EX. Angry with mom take it out on women therapist
– Is a good thing

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Resistance

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Refusing to talk about some thing

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Wish fulfillment

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desire/wishes come out in dreams

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humanistic theories

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Looks at personality with Hope of healthy, personal growth

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Self actualization

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Process of filling your potential

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self transcendence

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Meaning, purpose, and communion beyond the self

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Unconditional positive regard

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Attitude of acceptance to someone

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Characteristics of an environment with unconditional positive regard

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Genuineness, acceptance, empathy

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Self concept

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all the thoughts and feelings in response to a question 

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Factor analysis

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Clustering traits to determine personality
EX. Different musical traits.

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personality, inventories

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Longer questionnaire is covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors

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Minnesota multiphasic, personality inventory (MMPI)

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Assessing abnormal, personality tendencies
– first of personality inventory

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empirically derived

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Testing pull of items that are finding those that discriminate between groups

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Abraham Maslow

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Father of humanistic theories

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hierarchy of needs

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Bottom to top
1. Physiological needs.(food)
2. Safety.(only worried about a safe environment.
3. Love/belonging.(having friends.)
4. Esteem
5. Self actualization.
Self transcendence

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Client centered therapy

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Client is in charge of therapy

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Psychotherapy

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Face-to-face and directed questions

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Eclectic

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Mixture of different therapy techniques

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Alfred Adler

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Thought of the inferiority, complex and personality comes from more social

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Big five personality traits

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conscientiousness- how organized
Agreeableness -how much they get along
Neuroticism- Unstable personality
Openness -how willing to try new things
Extrovert/introvert

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Myers Briggs test

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How much do agree with the statement?

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are trait, perspective, criticism

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Barnum effect

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Barnum affect

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Personality assessments are written in a general way were a lot of people could relate

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social cognitive

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Our personality is a comb of our environment and how we think

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Bobo doll experiment

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Washed if kids watching adults to see if they would copy the adults actions of hitting the bobo doll
– They did

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Reciprocal influences

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environment can influence part of our personality
-Nature and nurture

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Personal control

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Whether we control the environment or if it controls us

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external locus of control

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Not being able to control something

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Internal locus of control

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What we perceive we can control

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Learned helplessness

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Bad situation, long enough, you lose hope and stop trying
EX. Depression.

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Attribution style

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Optimus/pessimist

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Martin Seligman

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Father of positive psychology

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VIA

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values in action ( Seligmann)

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Cognitive perspective, criticism

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Not enough focus on biology/too much on situation

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Spotlight effect

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When we think people are watching us more than they are

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self reference effect

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Relating things for our selves

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self efficiency

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You’re believe that you can overcome a challenge

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self-serving bias

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Think more about the good things we’ve done

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defensive self-esteem

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Fragile and really care about what others think

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Trait, perspective, critiques

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Self reporting

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self-determination

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Your ability to determine your future

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