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Psychoanalytic Theories

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Freud

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Explain how different people conduct their lives; Explore how different people conduct their lives; Determine how people can improve their lives

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Purposes of Personality Theories

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Behavioral theories

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B.F.Skinner

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Social Learning

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Albert Bandura

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Cognitive Theories

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George Kelly

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Humanistic Theory

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

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Trait Theories

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Gordon Allport and Hans Eysenck

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3 types of core assumptions of Freud

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Psychic Determinism; Symbolic Meaning; Unconscious Motivation

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Assumption that all psychological events have a cause. Reasoning in what you’re doing is in unconscious mind. Free will is an illusion, and we are constantly influenced by outside factors

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Psychic Determinism

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Everything symbolizes something else, everything is symbolic

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Symbolic Meaning

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Constantly influenced by the unconscious mind, and because of that we rarely have true understanding of how you feel. Largest part in personality

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Unconscious motivation

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3 Levels of consciousness

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Conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious

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made up of thoughts, events, and feelings currently going on

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Conscious

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Short term memory, just below the surface of conscious

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Pre-conscious

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Contains things we are not aware of, and never will be aware of. Largest area, also strongest influence on your personality

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Unconscious

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3 agencies of the psyche

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The Id, ego, superego

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basic animal like instincts, immediate gratification, doesn’t like the word no, teenagers are very manipulative, operates on pleasure principle

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The Id

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Decision making part of personality, primary task of ego is to interact with real world and solve conflicts with the id and superego; operates on reality principle; delays gratification until an appropriate time

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Ego

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referred to as conscience, sense of morality, not born with sense of right ad wrong, it is learned. Pushes for perfection, must be better than everyone else. Operates on morality principle; have problems with anxiety

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Superego

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What is caused when ego is not powerful enough and is overrun by another of the agencies of psyche

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Psychological Distress

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conscious choice, purposefully forget about something until your mind is at a state to deal with it; Mostly used by younger kids

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Repression

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Choose not to acknowledge te truth of a painful event

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Denial

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Psychologically return to a younger age, typically childhood

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regression

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you have an anxiety forming emotion; because it is not acceptable, they transform it outwardly, and are over the top abut how they feel about something

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Reaction-Formation

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Take things you don’t like about yourself and put it on someone else. Only reason you do this is because you feel that way about yourself

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projection

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Someone tries to apply a reasonable explaination to an unreasonable behavior

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Rationalization

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People try to avoid emotional pain by thinking of it in terms of very impersonal data, such as statistics

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Intellectualization

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Someone is aggressive with you and you take on their characteristics

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Identification with aggressor

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Socially unacceptable desire, you take that energy and transger it into a socially acceptable goal

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Sublimation

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what are two major influences that personality is controlled by, in terms of bf skinner

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genetic factors and environmental punishers and reinforcers

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behaviorists do not believe you have ______ _____

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free will

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How to modify or behavior management

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Reinforcement; Punishment; Positive; Negative

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Cause behavior to continue by using anything

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Reinforcement

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Anything used to decrease a behavior

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Punishment

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Whenever you give something to someone that they like, or introducing something they don’t like

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Positive

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Removing something

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Negative

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Reward behavior

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Positive Reinforcement

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Remove something they don’t like to increase behavior

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Negative Reinforcement

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something being added that they don’t like in order to stop the behavior

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Positive punishmenr

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Take away something they like, and then next time

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Negative Punishment

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for punishment to be effective it must be done when?

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Immediately

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4 major models for kids

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Parents, or guardians; siblings; teachers; friends

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process of learning behaviors by watching ofther people

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Observational learning

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Learn new behavior, you make a conscious decision whether or not you want to do something based on whether or not the person got in trouble; mainly in school

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Vicarious learning

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Refers to how much control you have; control over many things

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Locus of Control

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Internal locus of control; believe that events that happen in their lives are results of their own effort and personal characteristics; have more control over what can happen to you and is psychologically better

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Type 1

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external locus of control; happens as a result of chance or fate , can not do anything about what will happen

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Type 2

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Personality is determined by ___ ____ _____ and ______

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Thoughts, ourselves, other people, environment

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The pioneering developer of humanistic psychology

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Abraham Maslow

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Have an accurate perception of reality; not ignorant, but don't make everything sound terrible
More accepting of themselves and others, non judgmental
More problem centered than self centered
Spontaneous 
Independent
Strong sense of humor
Appreciates simple things
Strong need for privacy
Resist cultural and social conformity
Have a democratic attitude and values
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Characteristics of self actualized people

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Physiological, safety, love/belonging, and esteem

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Basic survival, food shelter water clothes

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Physiological

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Having a safe environment to live in

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Safety

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Friendships relationships

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Love/belonging

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Everyone worthy of love, acceptance, respect, no matter what

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Carl Rogers

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Doing positive regard for particular reasons, and only those reasons

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Conditions of worth

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How much control

People have over their emotions

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Stability vs instability

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Friendly, like to be around people

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Extroversion

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Non-social able, quiet, reserved, don’t have to be around people at all

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Introvert

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Spectrum where sensitive, caring, and empathetic people are on one end, while self centered, hostile and aggressive people are on the other

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Psychotocism

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Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, emotional stability

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The big 5

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Refers to how social able and how outgoing you are

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Extroversion

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How nice you are and how easy you are to get along with

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Openness to experience

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How easily you get stressed out, nervous, or plans being changed

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Emotional stability

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How organized, reliable, dependable

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Conscientiousness

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