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Personality, Human Development, Lifespan Development Flashcards

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What is personality?

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distinctive pattern of behavior that characterizes a person throughout his or her life

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Actions, thoughts, feelings, habits, are categorized as?

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Traits

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What do projective tests measure?

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The unconscious

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What are inventories?

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Survey tests

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What is a example of a survey test aka inventories?

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MMPI and MMP2

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Directing interests inward is called?

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Introversion

Ex. Working alone

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Directing interests outward, concerned with things outside of yourself is called?

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Extroversion

Ex. Working in groups

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Negative emotionality or excessive worrying is called?

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Neuroticism

Made famous by Freud

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When some people are more agreeable than others is called?

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Agreeableness

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Caring about the way you affect other people is called?

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Conscientious

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Openness to new experiences is how you feel about?

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Risk taking

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Having a sense of power and taking responsibility means you have a _______ locus of control?

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Internal

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Blaming others for your responsibility, power on the outside,putting faith in others means you have a _______ locus of control?

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External

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Physiological reaction to an enviorment is called?

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Temperment

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Learned helplessness is another word for?

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Our instincts that connect us to the animal kingdom

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ID

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People’s day to day thinking comes from the?

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Ego

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Part of our personality that has to do with morality

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Superego

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Unconscious things that we use to protect our personality

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Defense mechanisms

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To hide information from the unconscious (defense mechanism)

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Repression

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Taking a feeling and projecting it on someone else (defense mechanism)

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Projection

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Taking your feelings out on someone or something in directly (defense mechanism)

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Displacement

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Doing the complete opposite of your true feelings to deal with a uncomfortable situation (defense mechanism)

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Reaction formation

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Going back to a previous stage of development like throwing a temper tantrum or not acting your age (defense mechanism)

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Regression

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When you can't admit that you're wrong (defense mechanism)
Denial
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Oral gratification 0-1 years old is what stage (psychosexual stages)
The oral stage
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Potty training 2-3 years old is what stage? (psychosexual stages)
Anal stage
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Realizing your gender and others around you 3-6 years old is what stage? (psychosexual stages)
Phallic stage
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Trouble with relationships, repressing information from the phallic stage 6-12 years old is what stage? (psychosexual stages)
Latency stage
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Unresolved sexual gratification for parent of the same sex. You view parent of the same sex as a rival.
Oedipus complex
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Desire of the daughter for her father
Electra complex
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Erick Ericksons life long process is?
Birth-death Trust - mistrust Ego integrity - despair
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Carl Jung came up with?
The collective unconscious
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Symbols used to represent an ideal
Archetypes
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Masculine and feminine traits that everyone has is called?
Animus/anima
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People around baby are a good or bad object. Object is internalized and the baby thinks they're good or bad based on the object.
Object relations theory
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How often is a trimester?
Every three months
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The zygote develops in the _______ stage
Germinal stage (conception - 2 weeks)
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The embryo develops in the _______ stage
Embryonic stage (2-8 weeks)
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The fetus develops in the _______ stage
Fetal stage (8 weeks - birth)
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Harmful influences on the baby is called?
Taratogens
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Types of teratogens?
``` Smoking Alcohol Drugs Std's X-rays German measles ```
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Code switching between languages is called?
Bilingualism
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Baby can recognize sounds at
4-6 months
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Baby starts babbling at
6-11 months
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Baby starts holophrasic or one word speech at
11-18 months
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Telegraphic speech or 2 word speech starts at
18-24 months
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Jean Piaget is best known for
Cognitive development
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Babies pick things up from culture (cognitive development)
Assimilation
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you change your knowledge by learning something and making a mistake so you can change it (cognitive development)
Accommodation
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Coordination of the body (cognitive development)
Sensorimotor stage
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Dealing with relationships (cognitive development)
Pre-operational stage
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The focusing on rules (cognitive development)
Concrete operations
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Abstract thinking like ethnic identity, gender identity, etc. (cognitive development)
Formal operations
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Lawrence Kohlberg focused on
Moral development
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You don't do something because you are afraid of the punishment (moral development)
Pre-conventional morality
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Following laws. Not afraid of being punished, but worried about breaking the rules (moral development)
Conventional morality
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Because its not the right thing to do (moral development)
Post conventional morality
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Carol Gilligan studied _______
Women
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to logically determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size.
Conservation
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the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched
Object permanence
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letting the other person know you are powerful. You do this by: signals: bigger office, higher floor office, titles, dress, etc. verbal cues: using fewer words, telling someone what to do nonverbal cues: touching the other person, turning back on them, etc.
Power assertion
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observations of individual instances of members of the same class. ``` Example 90% of humans are right-handed. Joe is a human. Therefore, the probability that Joe is right-handed is 90% Probability ```
Induction
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The first ejaculatory experience of boys
Spermache
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the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female human beings.
Menarche

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