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Personality theories - trait

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Set of traits vary between people, stable over the course of life, does NOT depend on the environment.

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Personality theories - biological

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Genome responsible for personality, influenced by heredity, genes interact with environment to determine how and whether a trait is displayed

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Personality theories - psychoanalytic

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Sigmund Freud, determined by the flow of psychic energy between 3 systems that reside in different levels of consciousness; Id, Ego and Superego

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Personality theories - behaviorist

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Personality is constructed by a series of learning experiences that occur through interactions between individual and their environment, environment shapes personality, personality is behavior

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Personality theories - social cognitive

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People learn from experiences of others, observational learning,

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Personality theories - humanistic

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People continually seeking experiences that make them better, more fulfilled individuals, Carls Rogers, free will

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Self-esteem

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Persons overall value judgment of him/herself, increased self-esteem = positive self-concept

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Self Efficacy

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Feeling of being able to carry out an action successfully.

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Theories of development

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Freud’s, Psychosocial (Erik Erikson), Lev Vygotsky, Moral (Lawrence Kohlberg’s)

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Freud’s theory of development

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital

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Psychosocial (Erik Erikson) theory of development

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trust vs. mistrust, 
autonomy vs. shame & doubt 
initiative vs guilt
industry vs. inferiority
identity vs role confusion
intimacy vs isolation
generativity vs stagnation
integrity vs despair
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Lev Vygotsky

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Current development level
Potential development level
Beyond current potential
socio-cultural aproach to identity

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Moral (Lawrence Kohlberg’s)

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Preconventional morality
Conventional morality
Post-conventional morality

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Attribution theory

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Researchers the causes that people use to explain the observed behavior of others

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Dispositional attribution

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Rude driver

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Situational attribution

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Must be in hurry

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Fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to automatically assign dispositional attribution

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Self-serving bias

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The tendency to attribute one’s success to internal factors while attributing failures to external factors

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Disorders

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  1. Anxiety
  2. Mood
  3. Personality
  4. Schizophrenia
  5. Somatoform
  6. Dissociative

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