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Personality (Unit 12) Flashcards

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An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting:

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Personality

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No _______ experiments or _______ & _______ relationships can be used because personality is unique to each person:

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Controlled; cause and effect

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Focuses on understanding the unique aspects of each individual’s personality through data from case studies, interviews, and naturalistic observation:

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Idiographic

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Focuses on variables at the group level, identifying universal trait dimensions or relationships:

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Nomothetic

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Freud’s approach that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality:

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Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality

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Focuses on inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment:

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Humanistic Perspective on Personality

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Patterns of behavior or conscious motives which can be self-assessed; seeks to identify basic traits needed to describe personality:

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Trait

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Focus on learning, cognition and social influence:

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Social-Cognitive Perspective on Personality

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Psychoanalytic perspective - “first comprehensive theory on personality” by:

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Sigmund Freud

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What are the three levels of the mind?

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  1. Conscious
  2. Preconscious
  3. Unconscious
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What we are aware of at a particular time; sense of reality:

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Conscious

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What we can voluntarily call into awareness:

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Preconscious

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Thoughts, feelings, and desires of which we cannot become aware:

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Unconscious

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Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing:

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Free Association

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What are the 3 levels of the personality structure?

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  1. Id
  2. Ego
  3. Super Ego
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Present at birth, energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives and desires instant gratification NOW:

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Id

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Our rational self; balances the needs of the Id and Superego and seeks to find realistic and safe ways to give into demands of the id:

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Ego

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The voice of our conscience that focuses on how we ought to behave; internalized right and wrong acquired from parents, peers, and society:

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Superego

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Identified by Freud and his daughter Anna:

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Defense Mechanisms

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Enable the ego to create strategies that protect and reduce/redirect anxiety by distorting reality:

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Defense Mechanisms

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Blocking off from conscious awareness of any desire or memory the ego finds threatening; most dangerous mechanism:

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Repression

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Cutting off from consciousness of external threats to the ego; don’t accept the reality of the situation because it would produce great anxiety:

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Denial

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Attributing your own forbidden desires to someone else:

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Projection

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Redirection of unacceptable urges onto a substitute:

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Displacement

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Redirection of forbidden urges onto self:

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Turning Against Self

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Tuning unacceptable feelings into their opposite:

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Reaction Formation

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Making the characteristics of someone you admire or love part of your own personality:

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Introjection

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Making the characteristics of someone you hate or fear part of your own personality:

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Identification-with-an-Aggresor

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Turning to earlier and more childish forms of behaior to reduce anxiety:

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Regression

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Changing forbidden impulses into behaviors that are socially acceptable:

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Sublimation

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Attempt to make up for a lack in one area by putting forth extra effort and energy over an extended period to do well in some other areas:

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Compensation

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People go further than just balancing the feelings of inferiority, guilt. frustration, and inadequacy:

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Overcompensation

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Way of escaping problems to get away from anxiety:

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Procrastination

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Distorts an anxiety-producing and therefore unacceptable explanation/excuse for an impulse/behavior into an acceptable one:

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Rationalization

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Studied Freud’s work and disagreed/made their own contributions to the field of psych; formed the psychodynamic perspective:

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Neo-Freudians

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36
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Disagreed with significance of sexual motivation and stresses life span development:

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Carl Jung

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37
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Coined the term persona:

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Carl Jung

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38
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The aspect of personality that a person presents to the world; a means of hiding your true self:

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Persona

39
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Supported the idea that unconscious has two parts:

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Carl Jung

40
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All repressed thoughts, memories, and emotions:

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Personal Unconscious

41
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We are born with certain predispositions or patters:

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Collective Unconscious

42
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Young hero, wise old man, fairy godmothers:

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Archetypes

43
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Emphasized Individuation:

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Carl Jung

44
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People become fully aware of true selves through assimilating personal and collective unconscious in conscious awareness:

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Individuation

45
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Introduced concepts of introvert/extravert:

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Carl Jung

46
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Called his theory “Individual Psychology” emphasizing the drive to read goals and find purpose:

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Alfred Adler

47
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Said driving force behind personality is the need for superiority:

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Alfred Adler

48
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Said that the inability to resolve these feelings lead to inferiority complexes or overcompensation:

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Alfred Adler

49
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Rejected Freud’s emphasis on sex and his suggestion of penis envy:

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Karen Horney

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Said cultural forces and social relationship between parent and child forms the foundation of their relationship:

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Karen Horney

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Not a neo-Freudian; believed that if crisis was not solved, the person will be less likely to the next stage’s crisis:

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Erik Erikson

52
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Critics say Freud’s work…
-Lacks ______ ______
-Was based on a ____ number of case studies; can’t _______

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-Scientific Evidence
-Limited; generalize

53
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You help shape your destiny:

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Humanistic Models Influencing Personality

54
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Believed people have an innate drive towards reaching their full potential, and their full potential rests on how they view themselves:

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Carl Rogers

55
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Recognition and acceptance of one’s natural self:

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Real Self

56
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Emerges as a result of interactions with significant people in life:

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Ideal Self

57
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Believed that separation leads to move severe impact on one’s self-conept:

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Carl Rogers

58
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Parents’ acceptance of their child without regard to their behavior:

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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Standards of acceptance and love that can separate the ideal and real self:

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Conditions of Worth (Conditional Positive Regard)

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Explains personality in terms of their traits or stable personality characteristics of behavior, thought processes, and emotions that are observable and measurable rather than study how it forms:

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Trait Theory

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Focused on normal individuals and believed the key to personality was in the conscious and rational striving toward goals:

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Gordon Allport

62
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Believed personality is guided by 5-10 central traits that people are born with:

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Gordon Allport

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Using factor analysis to suggest that 16 pairs of source traits represent the basic dimensions of personality:

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Raymond Cattell

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Developed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire that provides scores for each of the source traits:

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Raymond Cattell

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Traits you see by observing a person:

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Surface Traits

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Traits at a deep level you can’t see:

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Source Traits

67
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Used factor analysis to identify patterns of traits and found that personality could best be described in terms of just 2 major dimensions:

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Hans Eysenck

68
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Relates to the needed more/less of external stimuli:

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Extraversion/Introversion

69
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Encompasses emotional sociability:

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Neuroticism/Stability

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Five-Factor Model of “The Big Five” by:

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Paul Costa

71
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What does OCEAN stand for?

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Openness to Experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism (Emotional Stability)

72
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Classified people by body type:

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William Sheldon

73
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Plump, relaxed, jolly, affectionate, and easy going:

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Endomorph

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Muscular, bold, physically attractive, energetic, couraeous:

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Mesomorph

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Thin, high strung, inhibited, and introverted:

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Ectomorph

76
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Contended that humans learn behavior, but he felt simple reinforcements and experience exists to explain why people act in certain ways:

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Albert Bandura

77
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Called the process of interactive with our environment reciprocal determinism:

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Albert Bandura

78
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The interacting influences between a person’s behavior, personal factors, and environmental factors:

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Reciprocal Determinism

79
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Degree to which a person thinks their efforts will result in a desired outcome:

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Self-Efficacy

80
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Looked at people who differ in their perceptions of control:

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Julian Rotter

81
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The perception that chance or outside forces determine their fate and does not feel in control; feels less happy, more depressed, less healthy:

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External Locus Control

82
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The perception that one controls one’s own fate; feels happier, less depressed, and healthier:

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Internal Locus Control

83
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Focused on personal goals, identity is based on personal accomplishments; prefer to stand out, value personal choice and freedom:

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Individualism

84
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Focused on relationships with others, identity is based on a role within the group; prefer to engage in behavior that supports the group:

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Collectivism

85
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Presents an individual with an ambiguous stimulus and then asks them to describe it/tell a story about it:

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Projective Tests

86
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Projective Tests were criticized for…
-Lacking _____ and ____ because they are _____

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Validity; reliability; subjective

87
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Most well known projective test; uses the individual’s perceptions of inkblots to determine their personalities through a set of complex clinical judgments:

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

88
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Created the Inkblot Test:

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Hermann Rorschach

89
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Developed by Henry Murray:

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The TAT

90
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Designed to elicit stories that reveal something about an individual’s personality by assuming the person projects their own feelings and thoughts in the story:

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

91
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Tests in questionnaire format that include many statements or questions:

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Self-Report Tests

92
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Constructed to help clinicians diagnose metnal disorders:

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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Contains 338 true/false questions that measure a number of personality characteristics and has built-in scales that assess validity and truthfulness of responses:

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MMPI-2-RF (Revised)

94
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When confronted with feelings of inferiority, children utilize compensation; believed this helped to form personality:

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Alfred Adler

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