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Type A Behavior

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a cluster of characteristics such as being excessively competitive, driven, impairments and hassle

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Type B Behavior

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a cluster of chracteristics such as being relaxed and easy going

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personality

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a patter of enduring distinctive thoughts emotions and behavior that chracterize the way an individual adapts to the world

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Psychodynamic theories

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focus on the inner workings or personality especially internal conflicts and struggle

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Free association

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relax and say what comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarassing used to get

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Id

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consists of unconsciouss drives and is the individuals resevoir of sexual energies

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pleasure principle

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the psychic force that motivates people to seek immediate gratification of instinctual, or libidinal, impulses, such as sex, hunger, thirst, and elimination

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Ego

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“the executive” directs energy supplied by the id

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reality principle

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delays action until it is appropriate

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superego

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harsh internal judge of our behavior

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defense mechanisms

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tactics the ego uses to reduce anxitey produeced by the id superego conflict

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denial

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the refusal to acknowledge unwanted beliefs or actions

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displacement

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directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening target

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repression

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memmories that provoke too much anxiety to deal with are pushed into the unconscious

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regression

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reverting to childish behavior

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reaction formation

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reverse direction of a disturbing desire to make the desire make socially acceptable (express the opposite of how you feel)

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Projection

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defend yourself against your own unconscious impulses by denying thier existence in themeslves while attributing them to others

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rationalization

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creating logical excuses for emotional or irrational behavior

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Sublimation

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the redirection of aggressive feelings into a more socially acceptable outlet

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Freud Psycho sexual stages of personality development

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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Fixation

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believed that personality traits traced to fixations or unresolved conflicts or hangups caused by an over indulgence

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oral stage

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pleasure center is the mouth if overfed or frustratedoral traits may created like smoking kissing nail bitting over eating alcoholism

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Anal stage

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toilet training pleasure in holding in or letting go

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hallic stage

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pleasure focuses on the genitals as the child realizes self stimulation is enjoyable

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penis envy

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a girls desire for a penis

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latency period

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turn thier attention to other issues like starting school childset aside all sexual feelings out of conscious awarness

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genital stage

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puberty to adulthood

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Karen horneys sociocultural approach

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freuds theories not supported by observable data Not penis envy were envious of males advantages in society

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Womb envy

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men ate jealous of womens reproductive abilites

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basic anxiety

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feeling of being alone in an unfamiliar world is the theme of childhood

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Carl Jung analytical theory

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Unconscious made of two parts

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personal unconscious

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(like Freud unconscious) compromised of repressed memories and clusters of thoughts the persons doesn’t want to confront

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collective unconscious

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of behavior and memories common to all humans and explains similaraties between cultures

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archetypes

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universal concepts we all share as parts of the human species

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persona

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is your public image

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shadow

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evil sied of personality

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Anima/Animus

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female side animus male side to personality

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self

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Alfred Adlers individual psychology

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childhood is crucial formative years people are motivated by a fear of failure in ferioty and the desire to achieve superiority

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inferioty complex

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a basic feeling of inadequacy and insecurity, deriving from actual or imagined physical or psychological deficiency.

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Projective test

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presents individuals with an ambiguous stimulus and asks them to describe it or tell a story about it

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Rorschach inkblot test

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uses an individuals perception of ink blots to determine his or her personality

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thematic apperception test

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20 sketches depicting various scenes and life situation

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humanistic perspectives

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stress a persons captivity for personal growth and human qualities

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maslows approach

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focus on self actualizes bc they have obtained full potential

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carl Rogers Approach

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personal growth and self determination all barn with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life

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unconditional positive

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Rogers’s terms for being accepted, valued, and treated positively
regardless of behavior

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self concept

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our conscious representation of
who we are and who we wish to become

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incongruence

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occurs when the ideal self does not align with the real self

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trait theories

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attempt to learn what traits make up personality and how they
relate to actual behavior

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nomothetic approach

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each person has a
unique but basic set number of traits

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idiographic

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people’s unique personalities can
be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistently across people

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big five factors of personality

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the 5 most basic dimensions of personality

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factor analysis

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set of statistical procedures designed to determine the number of distinct unobservable constructs needed to account for the pattern of correlations among a set of measures.

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raymond cattel- 16 PF

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warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension

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Gordon Allport

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one of the founders of personality

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self report inventories

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a questionnaire on which participants indicate the degree to which the description listed apply to them

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MMPI-2

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Myers briggs type indicators

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a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

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social cognitive perspective

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applies principle of social learning and cognition to personality

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reciprocal determinism

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process of influencing and being influenced by our enviorment

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self efficacy

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a persons beliefs about his or her own abilities in a given situation

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julian rotter social cognitive theory

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internal locus of control

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the degree to which we expect that a reinforcement or out come of out behavior is contingent on out behavior or personal characteristic

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external locus od control

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the degree to which we expect that a reinforcement or outcomes of our behavior is a functions of luck or fate is under the control of others in unpredictable

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