unit 6 Flashcards

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personality

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individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits

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personality trait

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disposition to behave a certain way in a variety of situations

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five-factor model of personality traits

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from Robert McRae and Paul Costa:

neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, extraversion

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psychodynamic theories

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focus on unconscious mental forces (Freud)

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Id

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primitive, instinctive, pleasure principle

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pleasure principle

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demands immediate gratification of urges

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ego

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decision making, reality principle

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reality principle

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delays gratification of id’s urges until appropriate outlets can be found

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superego

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moral, social standards about right and wrong

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conscious

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aware of at one point in time

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preconscious

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material just beneath the surface, easily retrieved

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unconscious

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material well below the surface of awareness, exert influence on behaviour still

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defence mechanisms

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unconscious reactions to protect from guilt and shame

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rationalization

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create false yet plausible excuses

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repression

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keeping thoughts buried in the unconscious

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projection

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say your own emotions are caused by someone else

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displacement

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divert other emotions onto someone else

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reaction formation

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behaving the opposite way of your feelings

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regression

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go back to immature behaviour

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identification

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bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group

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sublimation

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when unconscious, unacceptable urges are channeled into socially acceptable ones

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psychosexual stages

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developmental periods with a characteristic sexual focus, leaves mark on adult personality

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fixation

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failure to move forward from one psychosexual stage to another as expected. (excess gratification or fustration)

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oral stage

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mouth, biting, sucking, chewing, feeding. obsession can lead to smoking later in life

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anal stage

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bowel movements, toilet training

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phallic stage

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genitals, self-stimulation, age 4, Oedipal complex

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latency stage

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sexuality is repressed during ages 6 to puberty

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Genital stage

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with puberty, sexual urges reappear

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Carl Jung

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analytical psychology, personal unconscious and collective unconscious, introvert vs. extrovert

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personal unconscious

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houses material not within one’s conscious awareness because it has been repressed for too long

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collective unconscious

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stores latent memories of ancestral past, archetypes

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archetypes

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emotionally charged images that have universal meaning

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introverts

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preoccupied with the internal world of own thoughts, feelings, and experiences

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extraverts

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interested in the external world of people and things

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Alfred Adler

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individual psychology, humans are motivated by striving for superiority, adapt, overcome some feelings of inferiority, compensation, some overcompensate

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striving for superiority

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universal drive to adapt, improve oneself, and master life’s challenges

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compensation

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efforts to overcome imagined or real life inferiorities by developing one’s coping abilities

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inferiority complex

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exaggerated feelings of weakness and inadequacy

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behaviourism

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psychology should only study observable behaviour

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Albert Bandura

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social cognitive theory, reciprocal determinism, observational learning

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reciprocal determinism

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internal and external events and behaviour all influence each other

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Skinner

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behaviourism, operant conditioning

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observational learning

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organism’s response is influenced by a model

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model

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a person whose behaviour is observed by another

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self-efficacy

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confidence in oneself to perform and have desired outcomes

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Walter Mischel

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believes people will behave in a way that will lead to reinforcement in the situation at hand, people will behave very differently in various situations (people are not necessarily consistent in their behaviour!!!)

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humanism

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emphasizes unique qualities of humans, freedom, growth

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phenomenological approach

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we have to appreciate someone’s personal, subjective, experiences to truly understand their behaviour

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Roger’s Person-Centred Theory

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emphasized a person’s subjective point of view, self

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self-concept

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collection of beliefs about one’s own nature…typical behaviour

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incongruence

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gap between one’s self-concept and reality (vs. congruence), incongruence when a parent displays conditional love

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Maslow’s theory of self-actualization

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human motives have a hierarchy

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hierarchy of needs

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systematic arrangement of needs according to priority, basic needs first, complete satisfaction not necessary to activate needs on the next level

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need for self-actualization

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need to fulfill one’s potential, highest need in the hierarchy

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self-actualizing persons

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people with exceptionally healthy personalities, continued personal growth

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Eysenck’s theory

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biological perspective, personality is a hierarchy of traits, person’s genes allows them to be conditioned easier than others, intros more easily conditioned than extros

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narcissism

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inflated sense of importance, need for attention and admiration, sense of entitlement, tendency to exploit others

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terror management theory

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managing the love of life and knowing about death

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mortality salience

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the degree to which mortality is present in someone’s mind

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self-enhancement

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focusing on positive feedback from others, exaggeration one’s strengths, seeing oneself as above average

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self-report inventories

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personality tests, asks individuals to answer question about their characteristic behaviour

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projective tests

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participants respond to vague stimuli, shows their true feelings