Personality Flashcards

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Psychodynamic perspective and personality

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Personality retains some aspects of freudian theory but is more likely to see unresolved childhood conflicts

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Personality

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Individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

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Free association

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Method of exploring the unconscious and which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Unconscious according to Freud

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Regions of mind that is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts wishes feelings and memories

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Id

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Pleasure principle

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Super ego

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Internalized ideals

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Ego

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Reality principle

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Phallic

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Gentian has pleasure

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Latency

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Dormant sex feelings

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Centeial

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Maturation

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Collective unconscious

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Shared inherited reservoir of memory that Traces from our ancestors

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TAT tests

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Projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests to the stories they make up

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Humanistic perspective of personality

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Perspective that focuses on the study of conscious experience

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Carll Rogers

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Humanistic psychologist who stressed importance of acceptance, genuiness and empathy

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Definition of trait

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Characteristics pattern of behavior

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Eysencks theory of traits

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Offered alternatives to account for individual virations

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Personality inventory

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Questionnaires in which people gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors

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Test reliability

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Consistency

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Test validity

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measures or predicts what is supposed to happen

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Social cognitive perspective of personality BANDURA

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Perspective stating that understanding personality Involves considering situation and thoughts before during afternoon event

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External locus of control

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Perception of chance

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internal locus of control

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perception of control

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Learned helplessness

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Hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human when is one un able to avoid repeated bad events

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Positive psychology (seligman)

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Movement in psychology that focuses on the study optional human functioning and factors that allow individual thrive