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Free association

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In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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Personality

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

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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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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Preconscious area

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In this area thoughts can be received into conscious awareness

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Manifest content

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The remembered context of dreams

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Latent content

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Dreamers unconscious wishes

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Id

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A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

Ex: newborn infant crying out for immediate satisfaction

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Ego

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The largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the Ids desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

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Superego

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Around age 4 or 5, the ego recognizes the demands of the superego. The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscious) and future aspirations.

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Psychosexual stages

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The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the Ids pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

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Oral

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(0-18) months

Pleasure focuses on mouth (sucking, chewing, biting)

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Anal

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(18-36) months

Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination and coping with demands for control

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Phallic

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(3-6) years

Pleasure zone is genitals (coping with incestuous sexual feelings)

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Latency

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(6-puberty)

Dormant sexual feelings

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Genital

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(Puberty on)

Maturation of sexual interests

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Oedipus complex

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According to Freud, a boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father (phallic stage)

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Electra complex

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Girl version of the Oedipus complex

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Identification

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The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos (gender identity-our sense of being male or female)

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Fixation

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According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

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Defense mechanisms

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In psychoanalytic theory, the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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Repression (1)

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In psychoanalytic theory, the basic DM that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

Ex: someone who suffered abuse as a child may later for some unknown reason have trouble forming relationships

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Regression (2)

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Psychoanalytic DM in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.

Ex: when getting upsetting news one may become orally fixated and begin eating excessively

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Reaction formation (3)

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Psychoanalytic DM by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings

Ex: being really friendly to someone you hate

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Projection (4)

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Psychoanalytic DM by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

Ex: if you have a strong dislike for someone you may come to think that they don’t like you

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Rationalization (5)

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Psychoanalytic DM that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions.

Ex:student blames bad test grade in teacher rather than lack of studying

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Displacement (6)

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Psychoanalytic DM that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger towards a safer outlet

Ex: being frustrated with your boss and taking it out on your spouse

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Sublimation (7)

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Psychoanalytic DM by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities

Ex: someone dealing with anger might take up kick-boxing

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Denial (8)

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Psychoanalytic DM by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities

Ex: being addicted to alcohol but refusing to admit you have a problem

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Collective unconscious

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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 tests

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A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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Rorschach inkblot test

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The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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False consensus effect

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Freud’s projection of the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors

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Terror-management theory

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A theory of death-related anxiety; explores peoples emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

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Self-actualization

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According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved, the motivation to fill ones potential

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Unconditional positive regard

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According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance towards another person

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Self-concept

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question “who am I?”
If negative then we fall short of our ideal self

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Trait

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A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

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Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI)

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Taken by many people for counseling, leadership training, and work team development

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Factor analysis

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A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of correlated test items that tap basic components of intelligence (statistically correlated cluster of behaviors reflect basic factor or trait)

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Personality inventory

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A questionnaire (often with true or false or agree disagree questions) on which people respond to 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 researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use) this test is now used for many other screening purposes

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Empirically derived tests

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A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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Big five (conscientiousness)

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Organized or disorganized
Careful or careless
Disciplined or impulsive

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Big five (agreeableness)

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Softhearted or ruthless
Trusting or suspicious
Helpful or uncooperative

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Big five (neuroticism) 
Emotional stability vs emotional instability
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Calm or anxious
Secure or insecure
Self-satisfied or self-pitying

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Big five (openness)

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Imaginative or practical
Pref for variety of pref for routine
Independent or conforming

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Big five (extraversion)

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Sociable or retiring
Fun loving or sober
Affectionate or reserved

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Person-situation controversy

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Look for genuine personality traits that persist over time and across situations

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Social-cognitive perspective

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Views behavior as influenced by interactions between people’s traits (including their thinking) and their social context
Focuses on how we and our environment interact

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Reciprocal determinism

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
–> personalities shaped by interaction of our personal traits (thoughts and feelings) environment an behaviors

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Personal control

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The extent to which a people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless

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External locus of control

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The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate

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Internal locus of control

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The perception that you control your own fate

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Self-control

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The ability to control impulses and to delay gratification

It requires attention, energy, and willpower

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Tyranny of choice

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Information overload

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Positive psychology

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The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive

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Self

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In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Possible selves

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Visions of the self you dream of becoming (rich self) and the self you fear of becoming (the lonely self)

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Spotlight effect

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)

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Self esteem

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Ones feelings of hight or low self worth

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Self-serving bias

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Defensive self esteem

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Fragile and focuses on sustaining itself (failures=threatening) and correlates with aggression and antisocial behavior

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Secure self esteem

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Less fragile, less contingent on external evaluations

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Individualism

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Giving priority to ones own goals over group goals and defining ones identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

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Collectivism

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Giving priority to the goals of ones group (often ones extended family or work group) and defining ones identity accordingly

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