Unit 10 Flashcards

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Personality

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An individual’s characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Psychodynamic theories

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Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experience

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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Unconscious

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According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware

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Free association

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In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious where a person relaxes and says the first thing that comes to mind

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id

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Reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Demands immediate gratification

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Ego

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Largely conscious “executive” part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality

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Superego

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Part of personality that represents internalized ideals (our conscience/moral compass)

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Psychosexual stages

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Childhood stages of development when id’s pleasure - seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

(Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital)

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Oral stage

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0-18 months, pleasure sensors on mouth —> sucking, biting, chewing

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Anal stage

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Pleasure focuses on bowel & bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

18-36 months

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Phallic stage

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3-6 years, pleasure zone is the genitals, coping with incestuous sexual feelings

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Latency stage

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6-puberty, a phase of dormant sexual feelings

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Genital stage

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Puberty on, maturation of sexual interests

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Oedipus (ED-un-puss) complex

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A boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and jealousy for the “rival” father

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Electra complex

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A girl’s sexual attraction toward her father & jealousy toward her mother

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Identification

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Process by which children incorporate their parent’s values into their developing superegos

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Fixation

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A lingering focus of pleasure - seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage where conflicts were unresolved

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Defense mechanisms

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The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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Repression

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Defense mechanism that unconsciously banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

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Regression

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Retreating to an earlier psychosexual stage where some psychic energy remains fixated on

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Reaction formation

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Acting in the opposite way

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Projection

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Disguising one’s own thoughts by attributing them to others

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Rationalization

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Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening reasons

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Displacement

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Shifting impulses toward a more acceptable/less threatening object or person

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Sublimation

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Transferring unacceptable impulses to socially acceptable motives

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Denial

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Refusing to believe & perceive painful realities

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Collective unconscious (archetypes)

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Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history

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Projective test

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Personality test that shows ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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Themantic apperception test (TAT)

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Projective test where people express their inner feelings and interests through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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Rorschach inkblot test

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Most widely used projective test, seeks to analyze people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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Terror management theory

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Theory of death-related anxiety, explores people’s emotional and behavior responses to reminders of their impending death

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Humanistic theories

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Theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

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Hierarchy of needs

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Maslow’s pyramid of human needs = physiological needs —> safety —> love & belonging —> self-actualization —> self-trancendencce

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Self-actualization

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The motivation to fulfill one’s potential

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Self-transcendence

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The striving for identity, meaning, and purpose beyond the self

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Unconditional positive regard

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Carl rogers: a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude would help people develop self-awareness and self acceptance

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Trait

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A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act in certain ways

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Personality inventory

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A questionnaire (T or F) which response items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors - used to assess selected personality traits

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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The most widely research and clinically used of all personality test. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, now use for many other screening purposes.

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Empirically derived test

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Test created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups.

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Conscientiousness
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N
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E)

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Disorganized, careless, impulsive <— —> organized, careful, disciplined

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Agreeableness
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Ruthless, suspicious, uncooperative <— —> soft-hearted, trusting, helpful

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Neuroticism (emotional stability vs. instability)
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calm, secure, self-satisfied <— —> anxious, insecure, self-pitying

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Openness
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N
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Practical, prefers routine, conforming <— —> imaginative, prefers variety, independent

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Extraversion
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N
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Retiring, sober, reserved <— —> sociable, fun-loving, affectionate

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Social-cognitive perspective

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Fuse behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits - (thinking) - and their social context

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Behavioral approach

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Focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

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Reciprocal determinism

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Self

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Center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Spotlight effect

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Overestimating others, noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and mistakes

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Self-esteem

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One’s feeling of high or low self-worth

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Self-efficacy

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One sense of competence and effectiveness

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Self-serving bias

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Individualism

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Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals, and defining ones identity in terms of personal attributes

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Collectivism

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Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (work or family) and defining one’s identity accordingly

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Collectivism

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Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (work or family) and defining one’s identity accordingly