Personality Flashcards

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Type A

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Time pressured, easily angered, competitive, ambitious, high risk for heart disease

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Type B

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Relaxed, easy-going

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Id

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unconscious instincts

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Ego

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Negotiate desires and limitations, mediator

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Superego

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Conscience

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Repression

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Block out of conscious

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Denial

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Not accepting truth

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Displacement

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Directing feelings to another object

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Projection

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Feelings towards others applied to others towards self

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Reaction-Formation

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Opposite feeling

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Regression

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Return to earlier comforting behavior

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Rationalization

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Come up w/ justification

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Sublimation

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Channel frustration to different constructive goal

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Alfred Alder

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Inferiority-failure; superiority-achievement, birth order

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Carl Jung

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Collective unconscious, complexes

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16
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Trait theories criticism

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Fail to take in situation, labels only

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Examples of trait theories

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Eyesenck, Big 5, 16 personalities

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Heretibility

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Measure of the amount of variation in a trait given a population due to genetics

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Somatotype theory

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William Sheldon; Endomorph (fat), Mesomorph (muscular), Ectomorph (thin)

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Criticism of behaviorist

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Fail to recognize important of cognition

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Bandura; Person, Behavior, Environment combine to reinforce each other

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Self-efficacyy

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Own ability to get things done

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Projective tests

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Interpretations, Rorschach inkblot, TAT

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Self-report tests

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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)

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Barnum effect

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People see selves in vague descriptions