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Personality Flashcards

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Temperament

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biologically determined, enduring characteristics of a behavior

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Personality =

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character + temperament + other

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Conscious Mind

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smallest part of personalty, characterized by awareness

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Preconscious Mind

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Memories in LTM that can be readily accessed

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Unconscious Mind

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Most of our personality, Memories and desires that influence us w/o our awareness

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Memories

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Behavior often motivated by processes of which we are unaware

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Dreams

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Way in which the unconscious mind communicates its intentions

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ID

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unconscious, biological impulses. Driven by principles of pleasure

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Ego

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Conscious mind. Part of our personality that we present to the world

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Superego

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Conscious. Part of personality that knows right from wrong. Spans conscious and unconscious

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Continuous conflict between ID and Superego

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Anxiety

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How does the Ego deal with Anxiety

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Defense Mechanisms

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Denial

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Refusing to acknowledge source of anxiety

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Repression

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Excluding source of anxiety from awareness

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Projection

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Attributing unacceptable qualities of the self to someone else

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Reaction Formation

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Warding off uncomfortable thought by overemphasizing its opposite

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Displacement

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Shifting the attention of emotion from one object to another

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Sublimation

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Channeling socially unacceptable impulses into constructive, even admirable, behavior

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Life force

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“Eros” or sexual energy which energizes all human behavior

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Death Force

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“Thantos” or destructive instinct that inhabits all human beings

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Stages of Psychosexual Development

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

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The Oedipal Complex

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During phallic, boys develop a sexual desire for their mothers and reject their fathers

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Electral Complex

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During phallic stage, girls develop a sexual desire for their fathers and reject their mothers for not having a penis

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Criticisms to Freud’s Theory

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Biased sample, no actual observation, just clinical observations

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Behaviorism

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Viewed personality as the result of previous experience

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Self-efficacy

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Expectancy of how effective our efforts are to accomplish a goal in those circumstances

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Locus of Control

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Who is in control of situation?
Internal –> One is in control
External –> Others are in control

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Cognitive-Affective Personality System (CAPS)

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People react to all situations in a manner consistent with their ecpectations

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Who is known for the Humanistic Approach?

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Carl Rogers

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Self-actualization

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Desire to fulfill innate capacities and capabilities and become everything we have the potential to become

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Self-Concept

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Image of oneself given by what people are told by others

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Positive Regard

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Warmth, affection, love and respect that comes from others

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Criticisms to Humanistic approach

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Cannot account for negative personality traits, difficult to test scientifically

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Allport

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Came up with 200 basic personality traits and believed that they were biologically determined

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Cattell’s Trait Theory

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Divided Allport’s triats into surface and source traits and found 16 source traits, or personality factors

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Big 5 Personality Factors

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NEO-PI; openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

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3 Temperaments seen in infants

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Activity level, emotionality, sociability

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Increased serotonin levels leads too…

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more social and less hostile behavior

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Projective Measures

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Try to probe into the unconscious; present ambiguous stimuli and ask subjects to tell a story about them
-TAT

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Objective Measures

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Relatively unbiased, based on self report questionnaires or observer ratings
-NEO, California Q-sort

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Interactionism

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Personality is the result of both underlying dispositions and situations

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