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Unit 10 Personality Flashcards

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Personality

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Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Free association

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

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Psychoanalysis

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Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings , and memories

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Unconscious

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Reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to basic sexual and aggressive drives

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id

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Largely conscious

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Ego

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Part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment

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Superego

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Childhood stages of development where the ids pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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Psychosexual stages

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A boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Oedipus complex

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Process by which children incorporate their parents values into there developing superegos

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Identification

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A 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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In psychoanalytic the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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Defense mechanisms

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In psychoanalytic theory the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

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Repression

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Modern day approaches that view personality with focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

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Psychodynamic theories

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Carl jungs concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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Collective unconscious

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Personality test

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Projective test

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

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TAT

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Most widely used projective test a set of 10 ink blots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of blots

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Rorschach ink blot test

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The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors

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False consensus effect

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A theory of death realated anxiety

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Terror management theory

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View personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

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Humanistic theories

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One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved

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Self actualization

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According to rogers an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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Unconditional positive regard

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question who am I

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Self - concept

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

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Trait

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A questionnaire

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Personality inventory

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Most widely used researched and clinically used of all personality tests

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MMPI

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A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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Empirically derived test

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits and their social context

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Social cognitive perspective

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In personality theory this perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

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Behavioral approach

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Reciprocal determinism

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Scientific study of optimal human functioning

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Positive psychology

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

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Self

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

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Spotlight effect

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Ones feelings of high or low self worth

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Self-esteem

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Ones sense of competence and effectiveness

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Self-efficiency

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Self-serving bias

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Excessive self-love and self-absorption

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Narcissism

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

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Individualism

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Giving priority to the goals of ones group and defining ones identity accordingly

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Collectivism

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