TOP (QUALIFYING EXAM) Flashcards
Contribute to individual differences in behavior, consistency of behavior over time, and stability of behavior across situations
Traits
Unique qualities of an individual that include such as attributes as temperament, physique and intelligence
Characteristics
Any reaction or response to internal and external stimuli
Behavior
Set of related assumptions that allows scientist to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypothesis
Theory
Theory and it’s relativ (4)
Philosophy
Speculation
Hypothesis
Taxonomies
Theory is related to __ but is much narrower term
Philosophy
Theory rely on __. But they are much more than mere armchair speculation
Speculation
Although theory is a narrower concept than philosophy it is broader term than __
Hypothesis
Mere classification does not constitute a theory, however ___ can evolve in theories
Taxonomy
Why do we have different theories site what you know (5)
- Personal background
- Childhood experiences
- Interpersonal relationships
- Philosophical orientation
- Personalities
- Data chosen to observe
- Unique ways of looking at the world
One that attempt to explain all personality for all people
Grand theory
Psychodynamic (people) site 3
Freud
Adler
Jung
Erikson
Horney
Unconscious are most important
Psychodynamic theory
First 5 years of life most shape personality
Psychodynamic theory
Humanistic existential (people)
Maslow, rogers, may
People strive to live meaningful life, happy lives
Humanistic-existential theory
People are predisposed to behave in unique and consistent ways; they have unique traits
Dispositional theories
Human thoughts and behavior have been shaped by evolutionary forces ( natural and sexual selection)
Biological -evolutionary theories
Peoples behavior are determined by forces over which they have no control
Determinism
People choose to be what they wish to be
Free choice
People doomed to be miserable, conflicted and troubled lives
Pessimism
People grow into psychologically healthy, happy fully functioning human beings
Optimism
Behavior is a function of past experiences
Causality
Explanation of behavior in term of future goals/ purposes
Teleology
Personal characteristics are environmentally determined
Social influence
Derived from the latin word ___ means theatrical mask worn by roman
Persona
Pattern of relatively traits and unique characteristics that give both consistenty and individuality to a persons behavior
Personality
Freud full name
Sigismund (sigmund) freud
Alfred adler was born on
May 6 1856
He learned ___ for treating hysteria, which later influenced his own psychoanalytic methods
Hypnotic technique
Related to word association
Free association technique
Freud abandoned his ___ theory and develop new psychoanalytic concepts
Seduction theory
Freud develop a close professional and personal relationship with __
Josef breuer
Contains thoughts, memories and perceptions that are not currently in conscious awareness but can be readily accessed when needed
Preconscious
Mental elements that are currently in awareness at any given moment. It is the level of mental life that is directly available to an individuals awareness
Conscious
Contains thoughts, feelings, desires and memories that are not immediately accessible to conscious awareness
Unconscious
Comes from heredity endowment
Phylogenetic
A physician region dervied from the impersonal pronoun meaning “the it” or the not-yet-owned component of personality. No contact in reality and strives for desire
ID
Also known as the “I” The region of the mind in contact with reality. Emerges from the id during infancy and serve as the individuals primary source of communication with the external world
Ego
“above-i” embodies the moral and ideal aspects of personality. Guided by moralistic, and idealistic principles
Superego
Pleasure that is not limited to genital satisfaction, can take many forms including narcissism, love, sadism and masochism
Sex
Considered as the destructive drive according to freud that aim of this druve is to return the organism to an inorganic state
Aggression
Unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger
Anxiety
Apprehension about an unknown danger (exam, quiz)
Neurotic anxiety
Stems from the conflict between the ego and superego
Moral anxiety
Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger (closely related to fear)
Realistic anxiety
The way ego deals with anxiety-provoking material
- used to deal with unwanted thought s and desires
Defense mechanism
Pushing conscious, unpleasant thoughts to the unconscious (accident)
Repression
Concealing a motive by giving strong expression to the opposite (crush to someone) (Baliktad na feelings)
Reaction formation
Channeling or substituting our impulses from an original traget to another person / objects (galit)
Displacement
When psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development, thus making change or psychological growth difficult (smokers, gossiper)
Fixation
Turns to an earlier stage of development when he or she experience stress ( revert fixation) (Childish behavior)
Regression
An unconscious impulses to other people instead of to oneself (ayaw aminin sa sarili nagtuturo sa iba)
Projection
Justifying one’s conduct by offering socially acceptable reasons in place of real reasons
___ pretending to dislike but like
___ pretending to like but dislike
Reationalization
Sour grape
Sweet lemon
Insisting the something is not true, despite all evidence to the contrary
Denial
Channeling negative id impulses into socially acceptable actions (coping mechanism)
Sublimation
Incorporating positive qualities of another person into their ego ( adopt characteristics/mindset) (The opposite of projection)
Introjection