Unit 9 Vocabulary (Personality) Flashcards
Anal stage
The anus is the primary erogenous zone (psychosexual stages)
Archetypes
Typical example of a certain person or thing
Big five
Basic structures behind all personality tests
Collective
Shared inherited memories
Defense mechanism
Ego’s protective methods
Displacement
Defense mechanism
Redirecting sexual or agressive behavior on a more acceptable or safer target
Ego
Executive part of personality and consciousness
Fixation
Lingering focus in psychosexual stages
Genital stage
Libido and interest is outside the family (Psychosexual stages)
Humanistic psychology
Emphasized the growth potential of healthy people
Id
Unconscious drive for basic desire
Latency stage
Libido is dormant (Psychosexual stages)
Locus of control
Degree to which people think they have control
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
Widely used for emotional disorders (Projective test)
Oedipus complex
Sexual desires for parent of opposite sex
Oral stage
First stage where her mouth is erogenous zone (psychosexual stages)
Personality
The unique sum of your psychological qualities that consistently influences your behavior across time and situation
Phallic stage
Third stage where Jenna Tallia is erogenous zone (psychosexual stages)
Pleasure principle
Id demands immediate gratification
Projection
Feelings are displaced on to someone else
Projective test
Shows projection of one’s inner dynamics
Psychodynamic theories
Focus on unconscious
Psychosexual stages
Childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure seeking energies focused on distinct erogenous zones
Rationalization
Creating false but credible justifications in place of real more threatening unconscious reasons for an action
Reaction formation
Repressed wishes are at contradicting form on conscious level
Reality principle
Ego let’s id be satisfied but in a socially accepted way
Reciprocal determinism
Interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
Repression
Pushing uncomfortable thoughts into the subconscious
underlies all other defense mechanisms
Self actualization
Maslow‘s biggest goal and motivation to fulfilling one’s potential
Self-concept
All her thoughts and feelings about ourselves
Self efficacy
Sense of competence and effectiveness
Super ego
Part of personality that gives standards for judgment
Temperament
Persons characteristic emotional maturity
- Activity level
- Persistence
- Distractability
- Initial reaction
- Adaptability
- Mood
- Intensity
- Sensitivity
- Regularity
Trait
A distinguishing quality belonging to a person
Transference
Giving emotions to a therapist about childhood
Unconscious
Inaccessible to conscious mind but effects behavior
Personality trait
A stable characteristic
Personality state
Temporary emotional condition influencing your thoughts and behaviors
Objective test
“Self-reports”
You answer questions on a true/false or sliding scale basis
(MMPI, Meyers-Briggs Typology test, Jung typology)
Validity test
Refers to the degree to which the test actually measures what it claims to measure
Reliability test
A test is reliable if it is consistent within itself and across time
Cardinal traits
Extremely prominent to ones personality. We don’t all have cardinal traits
Central traits
Major characteristics of our personality
Secondary traits
Important but can’t explain our general behavior patterns (preferences like reading books)
Heritability
Variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes (similar environments so they attribute variations to genes)
