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Unit 9 Vocabulary (Personality) Flashcards

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Anal stage

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The anus is the primary erogenous zone (psychosexual stages)

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Archetypes

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Typical example of a certain person or thing

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Big five

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Basic structures behind all personality tests

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Collective

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Shared inherited memories

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Defense mechanism

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Ego’s protective methods

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Displacement

Defense mechanism

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Redirecting sexual or agressive behavior on a more acceptable or safer target

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Ego

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Executive part of personality and consciousness

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Fixation

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Lingering focus in psychosexual stages

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Genital stage

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Libido and interest is outside the family (Psychosexual stages)

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Humanistic psychology

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Emphasized the growth potential of healthy people

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Id

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Unconscious drive for basic desire

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Latency stage

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Libido is dormant (Psychosexual stages)

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Locus of control

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Degree to which people think they have control

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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

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Widely used for emotional disorders (Projective test)

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Oedipus complex

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Sexual desires for parent of opposite sex

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Oral stage

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First stage where her mouth is erogenous zone (psychosexual stages)

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Personality

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The unique sum of your psychological qualities that consistently influences your behavior across time and situation

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Phallic stage

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Third stage where Jenna Tallia is erogenous zone (psychosexual stages)

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Pleasure principle

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Id demands immediate gratification

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Projection

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Feelings are displaced on to someone else

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Projective test

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Shows projection of one’s inner dynamics

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Psychodynamic theories

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Focus on unconscious

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Psychosexual stages

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Childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure seeking energies focused on distinct erogenous zones

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Rationalization

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Creating false but credible justifications in place of real more threatening unconscious reasons for an action

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Reaction formation

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Repressed wishes are at contradicting form on conscious level

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Reality principle

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Ego let’s id be satisfied but in a socially accepted way

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Reciprocal determinism

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Interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Repression

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Pushing uncomfortable thoughts into the subconscious

underlies all other defense mechanisms

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Self actualization

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Maslow‘s biggest goal and motivation to fulfilling one’s potential

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Self-concept

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All her thoughts and feelings about ourselves

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Self efficacy

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Sense of competence and effectiveness

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Super ego

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Part of personality that gives standards for judgment

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Temperament

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Persons characteristic emotional maturity

  • Activity level
  • Persistence
  • Distractability
  • Initial reaction
  • Adaptability
  • Mood
  • Intensity
  • Sensitivity
  • Regularity
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Trait

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A distinguishing quality belonging to a person

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Transference

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Giving emotions to a therapist about childhood

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Unconscious

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Inaccessible to conscious mind but effects behavior

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Personality trait

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A stable characteristic

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Personality state

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Temporary emotional condition influencing your thoughts and behaviors

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Objective test

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“Self-reports”
You answer questions on a true/false or sliding scale basis
(MMPI, Meyers-Briggs Typology test, Jung typology)

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Validity test

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Refers to the degree to which the test actually measures what it claims to measure

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Reliability test

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A test is reliable if it is consistent within itself and across time

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Cardinal traits

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Extremely prominent to ones personality. We don’t all have cardinal traits

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Central traits

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Major characteristics of our personality

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Secondary traits

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Important but can’t explain our general behavior patterns (preferences like reading books)

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Heritability

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Variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes (similar environments so they attribute variations to genes)

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