Personality

Question 1

Temperament

Answer 1

biologically determined, enduring characteristics of a behavior

Question 2

Personality =

Answer 2

character + temperament + other

Question 3

Conscious Mind

Answer 3

smallest part of personalty, characterized by awareness

Question 4

Preconscious Mind

Answer 4

Memories in LTM that can be readily accessed

Question 5

Unconscious Mind

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Memories

Answer 6

Behavior often motivated by processes of which we are unaware

Question 7

Dreams

Answer 7

Way in which the unconscious mind communicates its intentions

Question 8

ID

Answer 8

unconscious, biological impulses. Driven by principles of pleasure

Question 9

Ego

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Superego

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Continuous conflict between ID and Superego

Answer 11

Anxiety

Question 12

How does the Ego deal with Anxiety

Answer 12

Defense Mechanisms

Question 13

Denial

Answer 13

Refusing to acknowledge source of anxiety

Question 14

Repression

Answer 14

Excluding source of anxiety from awareness

Question 15

Projection

Answer 15

Attributing unacceptable qualities of the self to someone else

Question 16

Reaction Formation

Answer 16

Warding off uncomfortable thought by overemphasizing its opposite

Question 17

Displacement

Answer 17

Shifting the attention of emotion from one object to another

Question 18

Sublimation

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Channeling socially unacceptable impulses into constructive, even admirable, behavior

Question 19

Life force

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“Eros” or sexual energy which energizes all human behavior

Question 20

Death Force

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“Thantos” or destructive instinct that inhabits all human beings

Question 21

Stages of Psychosexual Development

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Question 22

The Oedipal Complex

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Electral Complex

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Criticisms to Freud’s Theory

Answer 24

Biased sample, no actual observation, just clinical observations

Question 25

Behaviorism

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Viewed personality as the result of previous experience

Question 26

Self-efficacy

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

Question 27

Locus of Control

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

Question 28

Cognitive-Affective Personality System (CAPS)

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Who is known for the Humanistic Approach?

Answer 29

Carl Rogers

Question 30

Self-actualization

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

Question 31

Self-Concept

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Image of oneself given by what people are told by others

Question 32

Positive Regard

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Warmth, affection, love and respect that comes from others

Question 33

Criticisms to Humanistic approach

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Cannot account for negative personality traits, difficult to test scientifically

Question 34

Allport

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

Big 5 Personality Factors

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

Question 37

3 Temperaments seen in infants

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Activity level, emotionality, sociability

Question 38

Increased serotonin levels leads too...

Answer 38

more social and less hostile behavior

Question 39

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

Question 40

Objective Measures

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

Question 41

Interactionism

Answer 41

Personality is the result of both underlying dispositions and situations