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Personality Flashcards

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What is personality?

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Unique characteristics that account for enduring patterns of inner experience and outward behaviour

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Who embraces the psychodynamic perspective

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Freud, Alfred alder, carl jung, Karen horney

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What are defense mechanisms

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Tactics that emotionally protect us

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What is the denial mechanism

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Refusing to recognize an unpleasant reality

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What is the repression mechanism

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Keeping unpleasant memories or thoughts buried in the unconscious

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What is rationalization

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Creating a socially acceptable excuse to justify unacceptable behaviour

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What is reaction formation

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Not acknowledging negative impulse and over emphasizing their opposite

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What is projection

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Transferring ones unacceptable qualities or impulses onto others

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What is displacement?

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Diverting ones impulses onto a more acceptable target

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What is sublimation

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Channeling socially unacceptable impulses into acceptable activities

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What is regression

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Reverting to immature ways of responding

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What is identification

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Enhancing self esteem by imagining or forming alliances with others

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What is intellectualization

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Ignoring troubling emotional aspects by focusing on abstract ideas or thoughts

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What are arguments against Freuds psychoanalytic theory

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Inadequate evidence, cannot be tested scientifically, lack of predicted power

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What is Freuds psychoanalytic theory?

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People are heavily influenced by their unconscious mind

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What is psychoanalysis

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A type of therapy based on his theory of discovering ones unconsciousness

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What are the three forces of personality

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Id, ego, superego

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What is ld?

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Basic instinctual drives. Seek pleasure, avoid pain

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What is ego

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Rational thoughts, realistic part of the personality

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What is superego

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Moral limits, leads us to feel guilt

21
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What are the psychosexual stages

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Id pleasure seeking tendencies that focus on one area of the body

22
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What are the structures of personality

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Consciousness, preconsciousness, unconsciousness

23
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Who believes people are on a quest for superiority?

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Alfred alder

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What does Carl Jung believe

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That unconsciousness is split into collective and personal parts

25
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Who believes culture has a large role in development?

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Karen horney

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What does Abraham Maslow believe

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Humanistic perspective- humans are inherently good, heiarchy of needs

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What is self actualization

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Need to fulfill our full potential as humans

28
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Who came up with client entered therapy?

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Carl rogers

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Who was the first trait theorist?

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Gordon allport

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What is the trait perspective?

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Believes personality revolves traits which are tendencies to behave in certion ways that remain relatively constant across situations.

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Who created super factors?

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Hans Eysenck

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What is the five factor theory

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An empirically derived trait theory that proposes 5 major trait categories

33
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What are the big 5 traits

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Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

34
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What are some advantages of trait theories

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Traits become more stable across adult years, stable across many cultures, predict other personal attributes, strong genetic contribution

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What are some cons to trait theories

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Over simplify personality, portray as fixed notchanging

36
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Who was the first trait theorist

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Gordon allport

37
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What is situationalism

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Behaviour governed by situations rather than personal traits

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What is interactionism

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Emphasis relationship between persons traits and reinforcing aspects of the situation

39
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Who came up w/ reciprocal determinism

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Bandura

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What is reciprocal determinism

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Reciprocal relationship exist among environment behavior and internal mental events

41
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Are genes more important then the environment in development of traits and temperament

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Yes

42
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What is phrenology

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Evaluate mental and moral qualities based on skull shape

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