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personality

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an individual’s characteristic pattern

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Freud

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founder of psychonalysis

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Unconscious mind

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thoughts wishes feelings, and memories you aren’t aware of; under the surface

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Free association

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“lay on the couch and say whatever you want”

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Dream analysis

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used in psychoanalysis, not accurate

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Manifest

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what we remember from the dream

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Latent

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the meaning of the dream

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Id

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is the pressure principle, do what you want irrespective of people’s feelings

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Ego

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reality principle

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Superego

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morality principle

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Libido

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sexual desire

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Oedipus complex

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boy’s desire for mother makes them compete w/ father

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Electra complex

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girl’s desire for father makes them compete with mother

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identification

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copying the behavior of same-gender parent

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Terror management theory

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death related anxiety

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Neo-freudian

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new branch, de-emphasize sex, focus on unconscious mind

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Jung

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focus on group thought

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Collective unconscious

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everyone is born with a set of beliefs, myths, and images

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Personal unconscious

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painful memories people do not want to confront

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Anima

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female side

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Animus

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male side

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shadow

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evil side

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persona

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face we show public

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Adler

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neo-freudian who came up with inferiority complex

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Inferiority complex

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motivation is not sex, but the desire to do better than those around us

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Fictional finalism

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Many people live by ideals that have no relationship to society

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Horney

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Neofreudian

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Penis envy(Freud)/womb envy(Horney)

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Jealous of man’s penis/woman’s ability to have a child

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Chodorow

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Mother is the center of the creation of a person’s ego

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Projective test

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Taking your feelings and putting it into a picture or assessment

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TAT

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Using pictures for a patient to tell their story

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Rorschach ink blot

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Pictures that are supposed to identify inner feelings

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Validity

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Predicts what it is supposed to

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Reliability

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Yields consistent results

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Personal construct theory

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People interpret the world and behave to match the interpretation

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Humanistic perspective

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You trying to be your best possible self

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Rogers

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founder of humanistic psych

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Maslow

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hierarchy of needs (SEBSP)

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Self actualization

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fulfilling your potential

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unconditional positive regard (Rogers)

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attitude of complete acceptance despite failures

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congruency

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when your true self, ideal self, and self image all correspond

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real vs ideal self

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who you are vs. who you want to become

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life story approach

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your unique story shapes your personality

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Trait perspective

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people have 1 dominant trait

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Mer’s=Briggs

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personality inventory/test

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Cattell

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16 personality factor (handout)

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Factor analysis

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using statistics to cluster personality traits

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Eysenck

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trait wheel (handout)

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Personality inventories

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questionnaire to predict personality traits

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MMPI

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most widely used personality inventory, 500 T/F questions

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Big Five factor

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handout

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person-situation controversy

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situations can change our personality traits

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Walter Mischel

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situations determine how people react

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Attribution theory

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how we explain each others behaviors

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Dispositional (part of AT)

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how we explain other’s behavior

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Situational (part of AT)

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explain behavior bc of situation

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expressive style

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body language often indicates personality traits

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Social cognitive perspective

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combination of environment + thinking determines personality

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Reciprocal determinisim

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3 factors - behavior, cognition, and environment determine each other, impact our personality

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External locus of control

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belief that God/fate determines destiny

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internal locus of control

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you control your destiny

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Martin Seligman

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founder of positive psychology

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positive psychology

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giving people tools to help them thrive

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Spotlight effect

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perception that everyone is watching you even if they aren’t

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self reference effect

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individuals have better memory if they’ve experienced it personally in any way

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self serving bias

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when we succeed we take credit, when we fail we blame others

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