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Personality Flashcards

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psychodynamic approach

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thoughts and emotions are because of unconscious motives and conflicts

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trait approach

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personality is determined by characteristics that are consistent over long periods of time

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humanistic approach

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people are good and want to become their best selves. Motivation for self-improvement pushes people to reach their potential

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social cognitive approach

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viewing behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context

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behaviorist approach

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human behavior correlates to one’s environment

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Freud

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saw psychological causes for physical disorders (psychoanalytic approach)

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id

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basic human drives, want what you want (conscious)

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ego

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reason and good sense (pre conscious)

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superego

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morals and values (unconscious)

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psychosexual stages

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Freud believed we go through stages and if we have a normal experience in each, we pass to the next one. Otherwise, we get fixated

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the oral stage

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year 1- attention from adults

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oral fixation

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clingy, dependent

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anal stage

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1.5-2.5 years- toilet training, self-control

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anal retentive

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too organized, need order

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anal expulsive

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messy, disorganized

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phallic stage

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3 years- differences in sexes, identify with opposite parent

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oedipus complex

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desire to kill father and marry mother

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castration anxiety

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boys feel guilty and fear their father would punish them for sexual desires for their mother

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latency stage

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4–>puberty: everything becomes hidden and still for a while

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genital stage

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puberty: gender identification, conflicts from earlier come out

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defense mechanisms

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in order to avoid the bad thoughts; the ego’s protective method of distorting reality

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repression

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forces/supress disturbing thoughts out of consciousness

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regression

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retreat to behavior of an earlier stage of development

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projection

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putting your impulses onto others

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reaction formation

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engage in behaviors that are the exact opposite of the id’s real urges

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sublimation

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socially acceptable ways to discharge energy

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displacement

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transferring the bad idea from an unsuitable object to a suitable one

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denial

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rejecting facts or their seriousness

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Big 5 personality traits

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CANOE (Consciousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion)

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factor analysis

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statistical method for identifying clusters of items that tend to be answered the same way

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temperaments

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a person’s nature shown in how their behave/react to people or situations

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reciprocal determinism

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social cognitive perspective; what you believe affects everything (trait determines environment)

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self efficacy

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belief in your capacity to execute behaviors necessary to perform

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personal construct theory

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people develop personal constructs about how the world works

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locus of control

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how much people perceive that they have control over their own actions as opposed to events in life

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external locus

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outside forces set our fate

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internal locus

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we set our own fates

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learned helplessness

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we learn that we have lack of control so we learn unhappiness

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projective tests

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examination of ambiguous stimuli (inkblots, enigmatic pictures)

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Rorschach

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10 ambiguous inkblot images

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thematic apperception test (TAT)

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has people explain what is happening in ambiguous scenes

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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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test used to diagnose disorders

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self report inventories

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test often used to assess traits

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Neo-Freudian

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accepted Freud, denied sex as being so important

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Jung

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Mysticism, believed in a collective unconscious; shared experiences of all humans leads to archetypes

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Adler

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social development; inferiority complex-constantly trying to compensate for failures

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Horney

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feminine development, womb envy

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Rogers

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formation of a healthy self concept (one founder of humanistic psychology)

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Maslow

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hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation

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self actualization

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concept by which one reaches their full potential

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collectivist cultures

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social behavior is guided by goals shared by a collective

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individualist cultures

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individual needs over the group as a whole

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pleasure principle

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driving force of the id that seeks immediate gratification

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reality principle

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assess the reality of the external world and act upon it accordingly; opposed to acting upon the pleasure principle

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