Personality Flashcards

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Sigmun Freud

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Psycho dynamic theory

Freud’s iceberg

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Precocious

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Thoughts that can be brought to mind easily by asking

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Conscious

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Thoughts we are currently “thinking” and aware of at any given moment

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Unconscious

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Repressed memories, traumas, anxieties, sexual and aggressive urges

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Id, ego, Superego

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Id- the devil

Superego- the angel

Ego- the mix between the two

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Repression

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Blocking out a memory of something that is upsetting or anxiety producing

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Regression

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Acting like a child, in reaction to something upsetting or anxiety producing

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Reaction formation

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Acting the opposite of how you feel about things to cover up your true feelings

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Projection

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Saying or assuming that someone else feels the way you actually feel

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Rationalization

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Making up an excuse to try to explain your behavior or your feelings

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Displacement

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Taking out your frustrations and anger on something or someone else that is less threatening

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Sublimation

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Taking out frustrations or urges in a socially acceptable way

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Denial

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Not accepting that bad news or a bad memory is real, pretending like it never happened

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Identification

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Acting like someone else that you look up to to protect yourself from your unwanted feelings

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Mei-Freudians

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Personality structure of Id, ego, Superego
Importance of unconscious
Importance of child hood
Anxiety and defense mechanisms

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Adler

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Inferiority complex

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Inferiority complex

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Cause by our need to take control of our own lives

Move from inferiority to superiority

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Horney

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Toward, against, or away in order to counter anxiety

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Jung

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Agreed that unconscious was important, but not the sexual and aggressive unconscious

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Collective unconscious

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Innate ideas and behaviors that all humans share

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Archetypes

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A collectively inherited thought or idea

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Projective test

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Contains open ended questions usually to ambiguous scenes and images

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Rorschach inkblot test

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A series of inkblot images in which the respondent is asked to identify what they see

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Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT)

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A series of ambiguous and vague pictures to which the respondent needs to add a story or information. Identifies personality traits or current concerns and anxieties.

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Draw a person test
Draw a person Evaluates cognitive ability or their personality based on what they draw
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Abraham Maslow
Humanistic Hierarchy of needs
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Hierarchy of needs
``` Self actualization Esteem Love/belonging Safety Physiological ```
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Rogers
Believed people were Genuine, accepting, and empathetic UPR
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Unconditional positive regard
People make mistakes but that doesn't mean they are a bad person
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Real vs ideal self
Real- what you are Ideal- what you want to be
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Fully functioning individual
Mix between ideal and real self
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Client ap entered therapy
Called a client not a patient and therapist serves as a guide
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Albert Ellis
Cognitive theory ABCs
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ABCs
Activating event Belief Consequences Our beliefs control our emotions
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Beck
Learned helplessness
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Internal and external locus of control
Internal- i am in control of what happens to me External- forces outside of me such as Luck are in control of what happens to me
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Bandura
Behavioral cognitive perspective Reciprocal determinism
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Reciprocal determinism
Personal/ cognitive component Environment Behavior These influence our behavior
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Individualist and collectivist culture
Individualist- does things for themselves Collectivist- does things for the good of the group
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Allport
Father of the trait theory Identified 4000 personality traits and labeled them as central or secondary traits
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Traits
Consistent and predictable patterns of behavior
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Cattell
Took allport's list and created tests to identify his 16 main personality characteristics
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Isabell and Katherine Briggs
Myers-Briggs personality inventory Introversion vs. extroversion Sensing vs. intuition Thinking vs. feeling Judgment vs. perception
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Eyesnck
Personality driven out of genetics Introversion vs. extroversion Emotional stability vs instability Psychoticism
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Introversion vs extroversion
Introvert- more reserved Extroversion- more outgoing
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BFI Big five inventory
``` Contentiousness- aware of things around you Agreeableness- flexible Neuroticism- overly perfectionistic Openness- how open are you to new ideas Extroversion- not shy ``` CANOE
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MMPI
567 true/false questions created to identify strengths, weaknesses, habits, fears, and mental problems
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CPI
This test is made up of 434 true/false questions used to measure social and interactive characteristics of a "normal" person but NOT built to measure mental illness Shares 194 questions with the MMPI