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PSYC 100 Chapter 12 Flashcards

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personality

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Patterns of thought and behavior that make a person react to certain situations in relatively consistent ways.

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unconscious

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The part of our mental life that influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions that we cannot directly observe and of which we are unaware

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id

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The component of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory that is the manifestation of unconscious and instinctual drives and need

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3 components of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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Superego, ego, id

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pleasure principle

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where behavior is driven purely by what feels good, with no real filter or concern about what is polite or possible

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assumptions of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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Psychic Determinism, Symbolism, Unconscious motivation

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Psychic Determinism

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All psych events have a cause (usually early childhood experiences), behind every single behavior there is often a deep underlining

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Symbolism

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no action is meaningless
believes everything ties back to sex

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Unconscious motivation

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mostly unaware of motivation (drives of hunger, sex, agression, etc)

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when are the 3 stages of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory developed

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Id- When we are born
Ego- Within the first 6 months
Superego- 5-6 years of age

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Ego

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The component of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory which represents the largely conscious awareness of reality and the ability to mediate the needs of the id within the constraints of reality (both conscious and preconscious). Operates according to the reality principle.

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Preconscious

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where thoughts and motives have the potential to become consciously accessible if they are cued.

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superego

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The component of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory that represents the internalized cultural rules and ideals to guide our moral conscience. Operates at conscious, preconscious and unconscious levels.

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Freudian slips

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Freud believed that slips of the tongue revealed deep unacknowledged wishes.

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Defense Mechanisms

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The various ways in which the ego is thought to cope with conflict between the unconscious desires of the id and the moral constraints of society

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Displacement

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A defense mechanism in which the ego redirects the aggressive impulses of the id from their intended targets to more defenseless targets

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Projection

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A defense mechanism in which people, instead of acknowledging it in themselves, see others as possessing a disliked trait or feeling.

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Repression

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A defense mechanism in which the ego keeps unwanted feelings, thoughts, and memories below the level of conscious awareness

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Denial

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A defense mechanism in which the ego prevents the perception of a painful or threatening reality as it is occurring.

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rationalization

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when we come up with ways to make undesirable feelings sound reasonable

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intellectualization

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ignoring emotion and focusing on abstract/impersonal thoughts

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regression

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return to an earlier stage in psychological development. reverting back to old ways of acting.

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reaction formation

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transforming unwanted feelings into the exact opposite

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sublimation

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channeling unwanted feelings into a socially acceptable, or even beneficial behavior

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what impact does Freud’s psychoanalytic theory have to this day

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  1. The existence of unconscious thought. Freud popularized the idea that thoughts can occur below our conscious awareness.
  2. The importance of early development
  3. The influence of mind on body (psychosomatic symptoms)
  4. The talking cure. (psychotherapeutic approaches to treating clinical disorders)
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Allport’s three main traits:

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Cardinal, Central and Secondary

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Cardinal traits

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are those that dominate someone’s personality. (barely anyone has one)

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Central traits

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the more general dispositions that we use to describe someone

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Secondary traits

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those that are relevant only in certain contexts

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Functionally equivalent

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When a given trait might lead us to behave in a similar way in what seem like very different situations. Those situations will be functionally equivalent
Ex. extravert vs introvert’s different ways of interpreting and behaving in different situations

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Lexical Hypothesis

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The hypothesis that the traits that provide useful ways to differentiate among people’s personality characteristics are necessarily encoded in language.

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4 general classes of Allport and Odbert’s lexical hypothesis (approx. 18000 total)

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Traits (approx. 4500 terms)
Temporary states and moods (approx. 4500 terms)
Evaluative judgments (approx. 5200 terms)
Physical characteristics and talents (approx. 3700 terms)

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factor analysis

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A statistical technique developed by Charles Spearman that involves analyzing the interrelations among different tests to look for the common factors underlying the scores.

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Assessment

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The process of developing and validating tools to accurately measure and quantify traits and other features of personality

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Traits

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relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behavior across contexts, a characteristic

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informant reports

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ratings made by family members and close friends of research participant

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projective tests

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tasks in which people interpret ambiguous pictures or images in ways that might reveal underlying motivations or preferences that they might not be willing to explicitly self-report

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Five-Factor model

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Also known as the big five, it is the dominant model of the building blocks that make up human variation. It is the dominant model in the trait approach to personality, which posits five key dimensions along which humans vary: open-mindedness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

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Who coined the term Big Five and the OCEAN mnemonic

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Lewis Goldberg

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OCEAN

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O: Open-mindedness
C: Conscientiousness
E: Extraversion
A: Agreeableness
N: Neuroticism

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Personality factors can be divided into

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Facets

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Potential 6th personality factor

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Honesty-Humility

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Big Five across life span

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Open-mindedness: Stays about the same
Consciousness: Increases
Extraversion:
-Social Vitality: Stays about the same
-Social Dominance: Increases
Agreeableness: Increases
Neuroticism: Decreases

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Two dimensions of Extraversion

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Social Dominance (how assertive or dominant one is)
Social Vitality (how socially active one is)

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Can a person’s personality change?

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yes, but the relative position in their cohorts stays the same

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Chinese potential Big Five trait

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interpersonal relatedness (emphasizing social harmony and tradition)

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PERSON model

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Shapes how we perceive other
P: Personality ( the actual personality of the person)
E: Error (random mistakes in the judgement we make)
R: Residual (idiosyncratic biases about certain types of people)
S: Stereotypes (cultural biases)
O: Opinion (idiosyncratic biases about certain types of behavior)
N: Norms (guide how we perceive certain behaviors)

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What type of people are easiest to accurately perceive?

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Those who are well-adjusted and secure.

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Behavioral Genetics

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The study of how genetic factors influence trait variation between individuals

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heritability

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If a trait is heritable, then identical twins will be similar to each other even if they were raised separately

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genetic essentialism

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the tendency to assume that just because something has a genetic basis it is natural and unchangeable.

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gene x environment interactions

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The interaction between environmental factors and a person’s genetic predispositions that determine the unique phenotypes expressed in personality.

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Behavioral Activation System (BAS)

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A biological system that governs people’s general tendencies toward approaching things that are rewarding

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Behavioral Inhibition (BIS)

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A biological system that governs people’s general tendencies toward avoiding things that are threatening

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Higher BAS

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Left frontal cortical activity

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Less Impulsivity

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Right frontal cortical activity

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Neuroticism biological evidence

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Smaller Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and posterior hippocampus, larger midcingulate gyrus

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Agreeableness biological evidence

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Smaller superior temporal sulcus and a larger cingulate cortex and fusiform gyrus

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Conscientiousness biological evidence

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larger middle frontal gyrus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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default mode network

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an interconnected set of brain regions that are active when a person is resting and not explicitly engaged in some other task

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Extraversion biological evidence

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heightened sensitivity to rewards which may be linked to dopamine functioning

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Openness biological evidence

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greater activation in default mode network
(an interconnected set of brain regions that are active when a person is resting and not explicitly engaged in some other task)

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who proposed a social-cognitive approach to personality.

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Walther Mischel

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What is a social-cognitive approach to personality?

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Emphasizes the role that the immediate environment can play in shaping who people are

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Mischle’s 3 main points

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  1. correlations between traits and behavior are modest at best
  2. trait approaches assume that a person with a given trait will behave in a consistent way across different situations
  3. traits were not something internal to people that direct their behavior, but rather are the templates we use to perceive and categorize others
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person x situation interactions

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A model positing that in order to understand and predict behavior, it is necessary to account for both personal dispositions and the situation people find themselves in, as well as the interaction between the two

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criticisms of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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nearly impossible to study scientifically
claims are unfalsifiable
no evidence and failed predictions
based on an unrepresentative sample

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Bandura’s social learning theory

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a theory stating that learning is a cognitive process derived from social observation, rather than direct reinforcement of motor actions. Thinking as a cause of personality

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reciprocal determinism

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The idea that personality guides cognition about the world in ways that can shape the environments people choose, serving to reinforce or amplify their personality.

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locus of control

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A person’s perception of what determines their outcomes: intrinsic (internal) characteristics or random, external forces.

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outcome efficacy

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The belief that if a person can perform a behavior, a desired outcome will result

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self-efficacy

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The belief that one can successfully execute a behavior linked to a desired outcome.

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learned helplesness

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A state of passive resignation to an aversive situation that one has come to believe is outside of one’s control

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depressive realism

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The painful awareness of personal limitations that render outcomes uncontrollable, in contrast to a more commonly held illusion of control for those who are not depressed

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sex

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refers to the biological and anatomical differences that make us male or female

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gender identity

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refers to the psychological identity we have as being male, female, or nonbinary

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gender expression

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the way in which our personality and behavior are expressions of masculine and feminine traits.

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sexual selection

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An evolutionary perspective posits that men and women develop distinct profiles of personality traits because of the different reproductive challenges they face.

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agency

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High agency involves an orientation toward the self and being assertive, dominant, competitive, and independent

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Communion

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High communion involves an orientation towards others and being gentle, cooperative, caring, and aware of other’s feelings.

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social role theory

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A theory positing that the roles people find themselves in can profoundly shape their personality.

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Humanism

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we can achieve our potential when we are accepted by others

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Self-actualization

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The desire to realize one’s full potential by gaining a sense of personal autonomy, accepting oneself, and accepting other people. The ultimate goal according to Carl Rogers

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Peak Experiences

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a phenomenon of being completely in the moment during some activity of intrinsic value

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Flow

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s way of saying peak experiences.

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hierarchy of needs

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  1. Physiological: Hunger, thirst, warmth, shelter, air, sleep
  2. Safety: Security, protection, freedom from threats
  3. Belonging: Acceptance, friendship
  4. Esteem: Good self-opinion, accomplishments, reputation
  5. Self-actualization: Living life to full potential, achieving personal dreams and aspirations
  6. Self-transcendence: Cause beyond th self
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Self-determination theory

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A theory positing that well-being and success are most likely to be achieved when a person’s environments support three key motivations: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

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Autonomy

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a sense that our behavior is motivated from within

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Competence

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the opportunity to demonstrate our strengths

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Relatedness

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the opportunity to feel affiliated with others

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Self-Concept

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The broad network of mental representations that a person has of themselves.

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reflected appraisals

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the means by which we gather information about ourselves through our interactions with others

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social comparison

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sizing ourselves up to people around us

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The more an aspect of the self is activated, the more likely you are to become ___ for that trait or attribute

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schematic

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self-esteem

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the general attitude we have towards ourselves

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what are self-serving biases

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Characteristic ways of processing information to maintain a positive attitude toward the self

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self-serving attributions

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the tendency to attribute good outcomes to something about us, but to discount bad outcomes as due to the situation or bad luck

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above-average effect

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whenever a group of people rate themselves on just about any positive dimension the “average” score is above average

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Idiosyncratic trait definitions

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defining traits in ways that seem true to us

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overestimating our contributions:

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people have a general tendency to overestimate their own contributions

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examples of self-serving biases

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overestimating our contributions
Idiosyncratic trait definitions
above average effect
self-serving attributions

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sociometer theory

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A theory positing that people use self-esteem, a judgment of self-worth, to assess the degree to which they are accepted by others.

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terror management theory

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A theory positing that self-esteem allows people to cope with existential terror stemming from their awareness of their own mortality

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Narcissism

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The tendency to have unrealistic and self-aggrandizing views of the self.

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independent self-construal

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A notion of the self as a bounded and stable entity that is distinct from others.

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interdependent self-construal

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A notion of the self as defined by one’s connections to other people.

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What is personality according to behaviorists

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Personalities are bundles of habits acquired through conditioning . Does not cause behaviors, IS behaviors. Is affected by genes and past rewards/punishments

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Determinism

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we think we’re in control, but we’re unaware of the situational influences

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conditions of worth

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expectations we place on ourselves for appropriate and inappropriate behavior

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incongruence

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inconsistency between current personality and true self

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structured tests

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consists of questions that people respond to in one of a few fixed ways (ie. T/F or Likert Scale)

easy to administer, objectively graduated

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projective tests

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consists of ambiguous stimuli that examines must interpret or made sense of

answers must be interpreted

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projective tests

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consists of ambiguous stimuli that examine must interpret or make sense of

answers must be interpreted

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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Examinees say what each inkblot resembles

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Thematic Apperception test (TAT)

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Tell a tale, examinees construct a story based on the picture

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Human figure drawings (Draw-A-Person)

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Examinees draw a person any way they want

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graphology

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psychological interpretation of handwriting

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