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Sigmund Freud

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Believed we are driven primarily by our unconscious mind.

Established the theory of psychoanalysis which attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious (outside of awareness) motives and conflicts.

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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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Id

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the unconscious part of us that strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress.

• Operates according to the pleasure principle: the drive to seek pleasure and avoid pain.

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Ego

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the rational aspect of personality that directs and controls instincts and guides our decisions.

•Operates according to the
reality principle: the drive to meet the demands of the id in ways that are realistic.

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Superego

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the voice of our moral compass (conscience) that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal.

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Identification

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the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.

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Psychosexual Stages

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the childhood stages of development during which, the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct
erogenous zones (sensitive parts of the body).

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Psychodynamic Theories

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modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.

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Projective tests

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a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the person into the test.

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Humanistic theorists

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focused on the ways people strive for self-determination (personal freedom to control one’s own life) and self-realization (personal fulfillment).

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Abraham Maslow

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Strongly critical of behaviorism and psychoanalysis.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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An arrangement of innate needs, from strongest to weakest, that activates and directs behavior.

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self-actualization

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the process of fulfilling our potential

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self-transcendence

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achieving meaning, purpose, and communion beyond the self

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Carl rogers

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Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies.

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Positive self-concept

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we tend to act and perceive ourselves and the world positively.

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Negative self-concept

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we fall short of our ideal self and feel dissatisfied and unhappy.

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Albert Bandura

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Proposed the
social-cognitive
theory of personality

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Social-Cognitive Perspective

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context.

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Reciprocal Determinism

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The notion that a person’s behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment

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External Locus of Control

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The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our 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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Learned Helplessness

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When an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances

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Spotlight effect

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People tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are

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Self-esteem

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One’s feelings of high or low
self-worth

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Self-efficacy

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One’s sense of competence and effectiveness; an individual’s confidence in their ability to complete a task or achieve a goal

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Self-serving bias

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A tendency to perceive oneself in an overly favorable manner

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Individualism

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

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Collectivist

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Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity as part of a group rather than an individual

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Personality psychology

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Examines personality and it’s variation among individuals

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Unconscious

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Outside of our awareness

According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable, thoughts, wishes and memories

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Oedipus complex

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During the phallic stage, a boys, sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Fixation

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A lingering focus of pleasure sinking energies at an earlier psychosexual Stage in which conflict for unresolved

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Interpretation of dreams

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According to Freud dreams are the disguise fulfillment of repressed infantile wishes

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Manifest content

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The dream that the conscious individual remembers experiencing

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Latent content

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Hidden psychological meaning of the dream 

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