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Unit 10 Flashcards

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Gateway to the unconscious through dreams

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Dream analysis

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

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Personality

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Person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Free association

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Seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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Psychoanalysis

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Reservoir of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and emotions

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Unconscious

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Studied the unconscious thoughts and desires

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Sigmund Freud

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Reservoir of unconscious energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives; pleasure principle

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Id

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

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Ego

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Represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgments and future aspirations; conscience

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Superego

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Id’s pleasure seeking energizes focus on erogenous zones

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Psychosexual stages

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Boy’s sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of hatred towards the father

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Oedipus complex

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Children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos

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Identification

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Lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved

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Fixation

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What are the stages of psychosexual stages of development?

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

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Ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety of unconsciously distorting reality

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Defense mechanism

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Banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

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Repression

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An individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage

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Regression

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Ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites

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Reaction Formation

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People disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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Projection

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Self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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Rationalization

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Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

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Displacement

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People re-channel their unaccepted impulses into socially approved activities

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Sublimation

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People refuse to believe or perceive painful realities

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Denial

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Shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history

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Collective unconscious

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Childhood anxiety triggers our desire for love and security

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Karen Horney

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Believed that we had a collective unconscious

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Carl Jung

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Our behavior is driven directly by efforts to conquer our childhood’s feelings of inferiority; social aspect

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Alfred Adler

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Personality test to show our inner dynamics

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Projective test

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Expresses our inner feelings and interests through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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Thematic Apperception test

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Seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of inkblots

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Rorschach inkblot test

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Tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors

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False consensus effect

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Explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of the impending death

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Terror-management theory

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Rises after physiological and psychological needs are met, motivation to achieve one’s potential

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Self actualization

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An attitude of total acceptance towards another person

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Unconditional positive regard

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All thoughts and feelings about ourselves

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Self concept

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We are motivated by a hierarchy of needs; humanistic

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Abraham Maslow

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Meaning, purpose, communion beyond self

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Self transcendence

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Identifies clusters of words that help us explain traits

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Factor analysis

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Pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act that are assessed by self report inventories and peer reports

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Trait

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What are the big 5 trait dimensions

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Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion

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Questionnaire that gauges a wide range of feelings and behaviors; usually true and false questions

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Personality inventory

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Testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups; have a pre-set way to answer

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Empirically derived test

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Used to identify emotional disorders

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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Made the big 5 personality factors

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Paul Costa and Robert McCrae

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Views behaviors influenced by people’s traits and situations

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Social cognitive perspective

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Interaction between personality and environment

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Reciprocal determinism

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People perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless

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Personal control

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Chance or outside forces beyond control that determines our fate

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External locus of control

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Perception that we control our own fate

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Internal locus of control

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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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Positive psychology

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Proposed social-cognitive perspective

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Albert Bandura

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Center of personality; organizer of thoughts, actions, and feelings

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Self

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Overestimating other’s noticing and evaluating our performance and blunders

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Spotlight effect

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One’s feelings of high or low self worth

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Self-esteem

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Readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Self serving bias

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

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Individualism

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Giving priority to one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly

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Collectivism

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Our view of our ability to succeed

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Self efficacy

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