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Personality Vocab Flashcards

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What is personality?

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Our patterns of thinking, feeling, acting.

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What does the Psychodynamic Perspective focus on?

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Unconscious motives and unresolved conflicts shape us.

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What is psychoanalysis?

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Expose and interpret unconscious motives and conflicts.

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What is Freud’s view of the mind represented by?

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The Iceberg model.

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What is free association?

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Relax and say whatever, unconscious things surface.

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What is the preconscious?

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When unconscious things become conscious.

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What is the unconscious?

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Mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, and memories.

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What does the Id represent?

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Shoulder devil. Want to do, pleasure principle.

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What does the Superego represent?

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Shoulder angel. What we should do, morality principle.

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What does the Ego represent?

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Kronk. What you can do, reality principle.

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What are Freud’s Psychosexual Stages?

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  1. Oral Stage (Birth-18 mon.) = Weaning conflict
  2. Anal Stage (18 mon.-3 yrs.) = Potty training conflict
  3. Phallic Stage (3 yrs.-6 yrs.) = Human anatomy conflict
  4. Latency Stage (6 yrs.-puberty) = Gender identity conflict
  5. Genital Stage (starts @ puberty) = Dating conflict
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What are defense mechanisms?

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Ego protecting us.

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What is repression?

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Blocking things out entirely.

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What is regression?

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Going back to child-like behavior.

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What is denial?

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Refuse to admit things.

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What is reaction formation?

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Think/feel one way, do the opposite.

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What is projection?

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Our thoughts or feelings, but we pretend they’re others.

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What is rationalization?

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When we justify things.

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What is displacement?

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Put unacceptable thoughts/feelings onto something more acceptable.

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Who are the Neo-Freudians?

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Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Karen Horney.

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What is Alfred Adler known for?

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Inferiority Complex.

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What is Carl Jung known for?

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Collective Unconscious.

23
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What is Karen Horney’s perspective?

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Freud’s theories were male dominated; social expectations shape personality.

24
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What are projective tests?

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Use ambiguous stimuli to trigger inner thoughts/feelings.

25
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What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?

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Show them a picture, they tell a story.

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What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?

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Use inkblot to ask what they see.

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What does Humanistic Psychology focus on?

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Experience, freedom to choose, and growth.

28
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What is Abraham Maslow known for?

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Hierarchy of Needs.

29
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What is self-actualization?

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Highest level of hierarchy, full unique potential.

30
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What is Carl Rogers known for?

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Importance of acceptance, genuineness, empathy in human growth.

31
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What is unconditional positive regard?

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Attitude of total acceptance.

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What is self-concept?

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Interview about actual self vs ideal self.

33
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What are traits?

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Consistent aspects of personality.

34
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What is the Social Cognitive Perspective?

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States people’s environment affects how they think, which affects how they act/feel.

35
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Who is Gordon Allport?

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Researched the idea that everyone has a unique personality.

36
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Who is Raymond Cattell?

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Believed traits predicted others; identified 16 human traits.

37
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Who is Hans Eysenck?

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Predicted personality traits were inherited; introvert/extrovert is genetic.

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What are the Big Five Traits?

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Conscientiousness, Openness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Neuroticism.

39
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What is validity in personality testing?

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Measures what it should.

40
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What is reliability in personality testing?

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Gets consistent results.

41
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What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

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The most widely used professional personality test.

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Who is Albert Bandura?

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Believed understanding personality requires knowing someone’s thoughts before, during, and after an event.

43
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What is reciprocal determinism?

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Behavior is influenced by both personality and environment.

44
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What is an external locus of control?

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You control your own fate.

45
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What is an internal locus of control?

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Chance/things you can’t control decide your fate.

46
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Who is Martin Seligman?

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Researched learned helplessness before turning to optimism and positive psychology.

47
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What is positive psychology?

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Study of optimal function and allowing people to thrive.

48
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How can personality be assessed in situations/positive psychology?

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Do actual experiments to test personality.

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