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Unit 7 Motivation, Emotion, and Personality Flashcards

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A need or desire to change behavior

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Motivation

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Unlearned patterns of behaviors that humans and animals engage, without thinking, evolutionary

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Instinct

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3
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Promised reward that will motivate us

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Incentive

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Motivation from within (inside); Interested in learning

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Motivation from outside (external); college credit

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Lose intrinsic b/c of extrinsic (doing more for reward than interest)

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Overjustification Effect

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7
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Belief in your own success

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Self-Efficacy

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8
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Motivated to be successful

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Achievement Motivation

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9
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Motivated to belong in the group

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Affiliation Motivation

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10
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Fill the need to avoid discomfort

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Drive Reduction Theory

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Alertness, wakefulness

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Arousal

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12
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Appropriate levels of arousal; not too easy and not too hard

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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13
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Our needs; being best version of yourself

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Marlow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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14
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Motivated to eat to return homeostasis

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Hunger Motivation

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15
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“Normal” body weight for an individual that stays constant; less impact on weight

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Set Point Theory

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16
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Feel hungry; Lat makes you fat

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Lateral Hypothalamus

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17
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Feel full

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Ventromedial Hypothalamus

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18
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Calories in = calories used for energy
Too few = Lathargic
Too much = Antsy

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Basal Metabolic Rate

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19
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% of a person’s body fat

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Body Mass Index (BMI)

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20
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Normal human interest in sexual activities

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Sexual Motivation

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21
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4 stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson; 1. Excitement, 2. Plateau, 3. Orgasm, 4. Resolution

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Sexual Response Cycle

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22
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Motivation to belong

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Social Motivation

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23
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Pushing us from isolation; not wanting to be isolated

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Social Exclusion

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24
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Pioneering sex researcher, gained his data mostly through interviews

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Alfred Kinsey

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25
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Hierarchy of Needs

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Abraham Maslow

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26
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Internal body balance

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Homeostasis

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27
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Something that must be filled

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Need

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28
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Food, water, breathing, etc.

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Primary Drive

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29
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Learned, extrinsic; support, kind words

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Secondary Drive

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30
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  1. Body response > 2. Emotion
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James Lange

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31
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Response + Emotion

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Cannon Bard

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32
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  1. Response + cognitive label > 2. Emotion
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Schachter Two Factor

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33
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Universal facial expressions = believed to be from nature (genes)

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Paul Ekman

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34
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Cultural facial/expresses emotions

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Carol Izard

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35
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Your facial expressions change your emotional state

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Facial Feedback Hypothesis

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36
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Culturally expressed emotions; good in some countries, not in others

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Display Rule

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37
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How we perceive/respond to something threatening

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Stress

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38
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Something that causes stress

39
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Bad stress

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Good stress

41
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General Adaptation Syndrome; Hans Seyle

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Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

42
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Choosing between 2 good things

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Approach-Approach

43
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Choosing between 2 bad things

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Avoidance-Avoidance

44
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Choosing whether or not to do something that is both good and bad

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Approach-Avoidance

45
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Traumatic event (Immediate reaction); not PTSD

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Acute Stress Disorder

46
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Perfectionist, impatient, goes crazy when stressed

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Easygoing, relaxed, lazy when dealing with stress

48
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Individual’s unique pattern on thoughts, feelings, behaviors; fundamental traits

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Personality

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Collective Consciousness, Frued’s BFF

50
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Sick, no social rules, inferiority and compensation, birth order

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Alfred Adler

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Anxiety, Neurotic Trends, Womb envy

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Karen Horney

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Person centered, humanistic Psychology; we’re inherently motivated to achieve positive functioning

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Carl Rogers

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Observation, shaping behaviors

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Albert Bandura

54
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Used 18,000 words to describe personality

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Oddbert and Allport

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3 personality dimensions

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Hans Eysenck

56
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Mouth is center of pleasure
Too early: unconscious biting
Too late: over-dependence

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Oral stage

57
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Expulsion of waste is pleasure
Early: excessive order
Late: Wasteful, disorder

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Anal Stage

58
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Oediupus and Electra; insecure, show off, fear of rejection

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Phallic stage

59
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Sexual urges are dormant; same sex peers

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Latency stage

60
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Opposite sex source of pleasure; all behaviors giuded by sex

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Genital stage

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Unconsciously stuck in psychosocial stages

62
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A method of looking within/exploring the unconscious

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Free Association

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Unconscious way of dealing with difficult feelings/behaviors

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Defense Mechanisms

64
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Trying to forget embarrassing thoughts

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Repression

65
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Revert back to earlier stages

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Regression

66
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Acting opposite of how you feel

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Reaction Formation

67
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Justify your action to make it seem reasonable

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Rationalization

68
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Take frustration on something less threatning

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Displacement

69
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Make intense feelings socially acceptable

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Sublimation

70
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When you don’t believe it happened (convince)

71
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Putting your unconscious feelings on someone else

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Projection

72
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Overcome inferiority by doing good things

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Compensation

73
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Shared thoughts and feelings below the surface that we all have in common

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Collective Unconscious

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Mental Prototypes

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Archetypes

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Males display feminine qualities

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Females display masculine qualities

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Feelings of insecurity in your life due to belief that you’re inferior to others; Alfred Adler

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Inferiority Complex

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Reaction to real/imagined stress

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Illogical reactions to stress

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Neurotic trends

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Observation, modeling

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Social Learning theory

81
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Our environment shapes our behavior and cognitive factors

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Inborn potential/personal blueprints

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Actualizing tendencies

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Reflect your feelings

84
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Emphasis on independent self; personal values

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Individualists

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Self defined by connection of family/friends

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Collectivists

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Characteristic, typical patterns of behavior

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Open-minded, open to new experiences

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You follow through things you said/planned to follow through

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Conscientiousness

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Sociable

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Extraversion

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Psychoticism; helpful/hurtful

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Agreeableness

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Emotional stability

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Neuroticism

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Correct/direct answers; MMPI, MBTI (personality components)

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Objective Personality tests

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Interpret personality by putting thoughts, feelings on test; Thematic Apperception (tell a story), Inkblot (what you see)

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Projective personality tests

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