personality

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Sigmund freud

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Believe personality emerges from unconscious motives/unresolved conflicts

Question 2

Psychoanalysis

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attempts to interpret unconscious motives/conflicts

Question 3

psychodynamic perspective

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focus less on negative/ sexual aspects

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Free association

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Relax and say whatever comes to mind

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preconscious

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when unconscious things become conscious

Question 6

unconscious

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mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories

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Id

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shoulder devil, what we want to do, the pleasure principle

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Superego

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shoulder angel, what you should do, the morality principle

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ego

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you yourself, what we can do, the reality principle

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freud’s psychosexual stages

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id ego figuring things out

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freud’s psychosexual stages - Oral stage

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Birth - 18 mon
Chewing, biting, sucking

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freud’s psychosexual stages - anal stage

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18 mon - 3 year
bowl, bladder control, potty training

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freud’s psychosexual stages - Phallic stage

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3-6yrs
Human anatomy

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Latency stage

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6yrs-puberty
gender identity

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freud’s psychosexual stages - genital stage

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focus on dating relationships

Question 16

defence mechanisms

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ego trying to protect us

Question 17

repression

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block things away as if they dont exist
Example - traumatic experiences

Question 18

Regression

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Go back to childlike behavior
Example - traumatic experiences

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Denial

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Refuse to admit
Example - bad grades

Question 20

Reaction formation

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Think/feel on way but do the opposite
Example - confronted about having a crush on someone

Question 21

Projection

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Our thoughts and feelings, pretending its someone else’s
Example - something you mess up on but say other people were messing up

Question 22

Rationalization

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Justify; make excuses
Example - curfew

Question 23

Displacement

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Put unacceptable thoughts.feelings on more acceptable stuff
Example - take anger out on younger sibling

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Neo-freudians - Alfred adler (inferiority complex)

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Conditioned being unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings

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Neo-freudians - carl jung (collective unconscious)

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Shared inherited reservoir of memory from ancestors

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Neo-freudians - karen Horney

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Disputed male bias of freud's work

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Humanistic psychology

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focuses on study of conscious experience (freedom to choose and capacity for growth)

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Abraham Maslow (Hierarchy of needs)

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Constructed hierarchy of needs to help explain humanistic psychology theory: satisfy basic needs before higher level

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self actualization

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after achieving basic needs, want more than the basics (motivation to reach full potential)

Question 30

carl rogers

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humanist known for his notion of unconditional positive regard

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unconditional positive regard

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attitude of total acceptance towards another person

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traits

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aspects of personality that are relatively consistent

Question 33

personality

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individual's characteristic patterns of behaving and thinking

Question 34

social cognitive perspective

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considering how some is affected by a situation

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Gordon Allport (trait theory)

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individual personalities are unique

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Raymond Cattell (Factor Analysis)

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individual personalities are unique

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hans Eysenck (biological dimensions)

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Extroversion and introversion

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The big five traits (CANOE)

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Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism Openness Extraversion

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Conscientiousness

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How aware/in control you are

Question 40

agreeableness

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how likable/kind you are

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Neuroticism (emotional stability)

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how emotionally stable/secure you are

Question 42

Openness

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how spontaneous/conforming you are

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Extraversion

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how extroverted/sociable you are

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Albert Bandura

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importance of learning based on observing others

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Persons behavior influences/is influenced by personal factors and social norms

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External locus of control

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Blame external forces for their own circumstances

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internal locus of control

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Believe they are in control and take responsibility for own actions

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Martin Seligman (Learned helplessness)

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Demonstrated development of learned helplessness in dogs who had no control over negative events

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positive psychology

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movement in psychology focusing in studying optimal human functioning and factors that allow people to thrive

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assessing behavior in situations

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do actual experiments to test personality

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projective tests

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use ambiguous stimuli to trigger inner thoughts/feelings

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thematic apperception test (TAT)

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show them picture, they tell story

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Rorschach inkblot test

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show random ink blot, what they see is inner thoughts

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Self concept

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Interview about actual self/ideal self

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Personality inventories

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asking you questions about yourself

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validity

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measures what its supposed to

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reliability

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get consistent results

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Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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Most widely used professional test