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Personality Development Flashcards

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What are the different theories of personalities?

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Psychoanalytic approach
Trait approach
Biological
Humanistic/phenomenological
Behaviorist/learning
Cognitive approach
Interactionist perspective

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Freud’s Theory is an example of?

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The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality

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What are the three divisions for the psychoanalytical structure of the mind?

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Conscious mind
Preconscious mind
Unconscious mind

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What is the conscious mind?

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The mind contains things that occupy one’s current attention.

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What is the preconscious mind?

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The mind contains things that aren’t currently in consciousness, but can be accessed

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What is the unconscious mind?

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It entails mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories that are beyond awareness

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What is known as a highway to the unconscious mind?

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Dreams

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What is Freud’s Three part personality structure?

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Id
Ego
Superego

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What is your id?

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Is the original personality, the only part present at birth and the part out of which the other two parts of our personality emerge.
It drives what you want to do.
“ red angel on one shoulder”

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Where does the id reside?

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In the unconscious mind

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What is the Ego?

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It starts developing during the first year or so of life to find realistic and socially-acceptable outlets for the id’s needs.

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What is known as the mediator between the id and superego - between right and wrong?

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Ego

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Where does the ego reside?

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Part is in the unconscious mind while other part is in the preconscious and conscious mind

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Fill in the blanks . The Id operates on ____ principle , ego operates on ______ principle while the superego operates on _____.”

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Id- Pleasure principle
Ego- Reality principle
Superego- Morality principle

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Life instincts for survival, reproduction, and pleasure & death instincts, destructive and aggressive drives detrimental to survival belongs to what structure of mind?

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The Id

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What is the superego?

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Represents one’s conscience and idealized standards of behavior in their culture
“ white angel”

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What are Freud’s defenses mechanisms?

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*Repression- Unknowingly placing an unpleasant memory or thought in the unconscious.

*Regression- Reverting back to immature behavior from an earlier stage of development.

  • Displacement - Redirecting unacceptable feelings from the original source to a safer substitute target
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What are Freud’s defense mechanisms part 2?

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  • Sublimation- Replacing socially unacceptable impulses with socially acceptable behaviour.

*Reaction Formation- Acting in exactly the opposite way to one’s unacceptable impulses.

*Projection- Attributing one’s own unacceptable feelings and thoughts to others and not yourself.

*Rationalization- Creating false excuses for one’s unacceptable feelings, thoughts, or behavior

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What is an erogenous zone?

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An erogenous zone is the area of the body where the id’s pleasure-seeking psychic energy is focused during a particular stage of psychosexual development.

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True or False? A change in the erogenous zone designates the beginning of a new stage.

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TRUE!!

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21
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Which stage/ age range has no erogenous zone?

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Latency ( 6 yrs to puberty)

22
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What is the erogenouz zone for patients in the age range ( birth to 1 1/2 years)?

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Oral stage - mouth, lips & tongue

23
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What is the erogenouz zone for patients in the age range ( 3 to 6 years)?

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Phallic stage- Genitals

24
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At what age and stage is the anus the erogenous zone in patients?

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Anal stage ( 1 1/2 - 3 years)

25
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What traits are associated with a anal-retentive personality?

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Orderliness, neatness, stinginess, and obstinacy develops

26
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When does an anal- retentive personality develop?

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If the child reacts to harsh toilet training by trying to get even with the parents by withholding bowel movements

27
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When does an anal- explosive personality develop?

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This personality develops when the child rebels
against the harsh training and has bowel movements
whenever and wherever he desires .
‘ literally explosive’

28
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True or False? In the Oedipus conflict, the little girl is attracted to her father because he has a penis; she wants one and feels inferior without one (penis envy)

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FALSE!!! This occurs in the Electra conflict.
“ Electra is attracted to her dad”

29
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True or False? In the Oedipus conflict, the little boy becomes sexually attracted to his mother and fears the father (his rival) will find out and castrate him

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TRUE!!

30
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During what process does the superego begin to develop?

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During Identification

31
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Which researcher proposed there was a collective unconscious mind?

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Carl Jung

32
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Which researcher proposed the main motivation was Striving for Superiority ?

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Alfred Adler

33
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Which researcher proposed that the focus is on our need for security, rather than a sense of inferiority?

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Karen Horney

34
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What is the collective unconscious mind?

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The collective unconscious is the accumulated universal experiences of humankind, with each of us inheriting the same cumulative storehouse of all human experiences.

Ex- ‘ black mothers - “ you have kfc money”

35
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What are the two main personalities associated with the Unconscious mind?

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Extraversion and Introversion

36
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What are the four functions/styles of gathering information in the collective unconscious mind?

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F - Feeling- is the subjective emotional function
I - Intuiting -is more subjective perception
S - Sensing - is the reality function in which the world is carefully perceived
T- Thinking is logical deduction

Functions of the collective unconscious minds is Fist

37
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Fill in the blanks.” __________ is the Father of humanistic movement.

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Abraham Maslow
“ father Abraham of humanistic movement”

38
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What is the order of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

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1.Self actualization needs
2.Esteem Needs
3.Belongingness and love neeeds
4.Safety needs
5.Physiological needs.

39
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What are characteristics of self-actualised persons?

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*Accepting themselves, others, and the nature of world for what they are.

*Having a need for privacy and only a few close, emotional relationships.

*Being autonomous and independent, democratic, and very creative.

*Being open to experiences including deep spirituality.

*Having insight in which you experience whatever you are doing as fully as possible.

40
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What is the name of the theory that emphasised self actualisation?

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Self Theory

41
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Who developed the self theory and what is the basis surrounding it?

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Carl Rojers - One should have an unconditional positive regard – acceptance and approval without conditions.

42
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In rovers self theory , personality comes from?

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Self- Concept

43
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True or False? Rojer’s and Maslow’s theory are research based.

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FALSE!! They are NOT researched based

44
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Which theory of personality classifies personality according to “types”?

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The Trait Approach

45
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In the trait approach theory, that strategies are used to determine ones personality?

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Factor Analysis and Statistical techniques.

46
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Fill in the blanks. The Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality is research-based by combining
elements of three major research perspectives: _____, ______ &______.

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Cognitive
Behavioral
Sociocultural

’ it’s literally in the name’

47
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What is the basis of the Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality?

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It maintains that learning through environmental conditioning contributes to personality development.

48
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Which researcher ,using factor analysis, argued for three trait dimensions?

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Hans Eysenck

49
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Which researcher, using factor analysis, found that 16 traits were necessary to describe human personality?

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Raymond B. Cattell

50
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Fill in the blanks. “ In Trait theory, personality ________ theory is at a more general and inclusive level of abstraction than _____.”

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Eysenck’s (better) & Cattell’s

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