Unit 10 Ap Psych Flashcards

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Personality

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

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Psychoanalysis

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According to Freud, an area of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

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Unconscious

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Pleasure principle, area of personality set to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, what’s immediate gratification

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Id

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Punches, mediates among the id and super ego. The personality the world sees. Reality principle.

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Ego

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Represents internalized, and provides standards for judgment. Moral principle.

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Superego

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0-1
Children derive pleasure from oral activities, including sucking and tasting. They like to put things in their mouth

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Oral STAGE

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2-3
Children begin potty training

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Anal Stage

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3-6
Boys are more attracted to their mother, while girls are more attracted to their father

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Phallic stage

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6 years old to puberty
Children spend more time and interact mostly with same sex peers

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Latency stage

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Beyond puberty
Individuals are attracted to opposite sex peers

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Genital stage

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Why does the ego use defense mechanisms

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To reduce the anxiety and guilt caused by the conflict between the id and superego

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A defense mechanics, that is automatic, no conscious thought, ejection or rejections of traumatic or negative desires and thoughts

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Repression

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Defense mechanism where an individual consciously retreats back to an infantile reaction, or time period

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Regression

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A defense mechanism where an individual refuses to accept the truth

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Denial

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A defense mechanism where an individual says or does the opposite of what they’ re actually thinking

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Reaction formation

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A defense mechanism where an individual projects or directs their weaknesses onto other people

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Projection

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A defense mechanism where an individual provides justifications, or excuses, to make behaviors or thoughts acceptable

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Rationalization

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A defense mechanism where an individual takes out their anger or feelings on a less threatening target- someone or something that cannot fight back

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Displacement

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A defense mechanism that occurs when socially acceptable impulses are transformed into socially acceptable behaviors

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Sublimation

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A defense mechanism that occurs when an individual attempts to erase a negative action with a positive one

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Undoing

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22
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Carl Jung

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Neo- Freudian
Collective Unconscious- Shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our history

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Karen Horney

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Neo-Freudian
Social relationships
Moving toward relationships
Moving against relationships
Moving away relationships

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Alfred Adler

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Neo-Freudian
Inferiority complex- Motivation and desire to overcome childhood inferiorities through being superior in life during adulthood

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Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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Projective tests

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Most widely used projective test- usually a set of 10 inkblots that seek to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations
- Herman Rorschach

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Rorschach Test

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Thematic Apperception Test- Given ambiguous scene, interpret their inner feelings through the story they create from the theme

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TAT Test

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28
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Helps people reach their human potential through development of a healthy self-concept, emphasis of free will. Our personality is designed to provide a potential for personal growth.

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Humanistic Psychology

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Desire to become the most that one can be

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Self-actualization

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Respect, self-esteem, status, recognition, strength, freedom

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Esteem

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Friendship, intimacy, family, sense of connection

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Love and belonging

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Personal security, employment, resources, health, property

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Safety needs

33
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Air, water, food, shelter, sleep, clothing, reproduction

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Physiological needs

34
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Carl Rogers

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Humanist
-Person- centered- perspective
-Growth-promoting climate requires
- Genuineness
- Acceptance- Unconditional Positive Regard
- Empathy

35
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Open with their feelings, drop their facades, and are transparent and self-disclosing

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Genuineness

36
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An attitude of grace that values us even knowing our failings

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Unconditional positive regard

37
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Individuals share and mirror others feelings and reflect their meanings

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Empathy

38
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Martin Selligman

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Humanist
-Authentic happiness
- 5 main themes: Positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and purpose, accomplishment
-Learned helplessness
- Positive Psychology
- dog test

39
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Characteristic patterns or predispositions to behave analytic measure to personality

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Traits

40
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Gordon Allport

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  • Source traits- few in number and considered to be the roots or source of personality (Core memories)
  • Surface traits- Traits easily observed by other people that may not actually describe who the person really is
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Raymond Cattell

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Factor Analysis- mathematical formula that shows how traits will predict personality
- developed 16 personality factor test

42
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McRae and Costa

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CANOE

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Conscientiousness

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Organized or disorganized

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Agreeableness

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Trusting or suspicious

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Openness

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Imaginative or practical

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Neuroticism

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Calm or anxious

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Extraversion

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Affectionate or reserved

48
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Hans Eysenck

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3 dimensions or biological traits
- extraversion
- neuroticism
- psychoticism dimension- overall welfare for other people

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Friedmans Type A vs Type B

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Type A- ambitious, competitive, aggressive
Type B- patient, flexible, laid-back

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Managerial Style

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Theory X- Managers believe that workers need a hands on management style
Theory Y- Managers believ that workers are self-motivating and don’t need a hands on approach

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Objective tests

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Trait psychologists will use objective tests to study individuals- direct questions that have direct answers, multiple choice, true false
- MMPI
- MBTI

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MMPI

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Most widely used objective test

53
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MBTI

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studied by Isabel Briggs Myers, 16 distinct personalities

54
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Albert Bandura

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Social Cognitive perspective
- Reciprocal Determinism
- Self- Efficacy

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Personality is the result of cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors

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Self-Efficacy

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Belief or opinion a person has about him or herself, will influence personality

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Julian Rotter

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Social Cognitive Perspecive
- Expectancies
- External Locus of Control
- Internal Locus of Control

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Expectancies

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Our expectations of the outcome of a situation

59
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External Locus of Control

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Outside influences control your environment, and you have little control

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Internal Locus of Conteol

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You Control your own environment, Faye

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Learned Helplessness

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Hopelessness in the situation

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positive psychology

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Optimism and helping people work more effectively through difficulties and becoming successful

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Abraham Maslow

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  • hierarchy of needs
    Self actualization, Esteem, love and belonging, safety needs, physiological needs
64
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a common tenet of psychoanalysis that allows clients to speak for themselves. allows the therapist to figure out the client’s unconscious motives and desires.

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Free association

65
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slender waists, narrow hips and shoulders, small joints, and long legs and arms

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Ectomorphs

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They have a wide waist and hips and large bones, though they may or may not be overweight. Their weight is often in their hips, thighs, and lower abdomen.

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Endomorphs

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moderate-size frames, with wider shoulders and a narrow waist, strong arms and legs, and modest amounts of body fat.

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Mesomorphs

68
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young girls experience anxiety upon realization that they do not have a penis.

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Penis envy

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suggesting that male envy of pregnancy, nursing, and motherhood—of women’s primary role in creating and sustaining life—led men to claim their superiority in other fields.

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Womb envy

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an individual’s tendency to attribute positive events to their character, but attribute negative results or events to external factors unrelated to themselves and their faults.

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Self serving bias

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Humanistic vs psychoanalysis

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Humanistic psychology emphasizes personal growth and self-actualization, while psychodynamic psychology focuses on unconscious motives and conflicts.