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What is personality?

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an individual’s
characteristic pattern of thinking,
feeling, and acting
UNDERLIES all that makes US US

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What theories inform our understanding of personality?

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Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Trait
Social-cognitive

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What are the psychodynamic theories?

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DYNAMIC interaction
between the conscious mind and unconscious mind, including associated motives and
conflicts.

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How are psychodynamic theories related to psychoanalysis?

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DERIVED from Freud’s psychoanalysis -> Childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

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How did Sigmund Freud’s treatment of psychological disorders lead to his view of the unconscious mind?

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In treating patients whose disorders had no CLEAR physical explanation, Freud concluded that these problems reflected UNACCEPTABLE thoughts and feelings, hidden away in the UNCONSCIOUS mind

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Freud’s psychological disorders

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Lost feeling in hand-> fear of touching genitals

Blindness/deafness -> people didn’t want to see/hear something arousing anxiety

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What is the unconscious?

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reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.

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How did Sigmund Freud explore the unconscious?

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free association

dream analysis

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free association

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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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How is Freud’s view of the mind depicted?

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ICEBERG

mind mostly hidden beneath conscious surface

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How did Freud view the mind?

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Mind most HIDDEN
ICEBERG with conscious as tips
unconscious at under water

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What did Freud believe about the unconscious?

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REPRESSION

Without awareness, the unconscious POWERFULLY INFLUENCES us

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What was Freud’s belief about human personality?

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CONFLICT between impulse and restraint

Personality arise from efforts to RESOLVE this basic conflict

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Freud’s proposition

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Id
Ego
Superego

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the id

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a reservoir of unconscious
psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive DRIVES
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

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the ego

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the largely conscious,
“EXECUTIVE” part of personality that MEDIATES among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
REALITY PRINCIPLE

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pleasure principle

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immediate gratification

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reality principle

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satisfying the id’s desires and the superego’s restraints in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

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the superego

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the part of personality

that represents INTERNALIZED ideals and provides STANDARDS for JUDGMENT (the conscience) and for future ASPIRATIONS

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What is the role of the ego?

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Because the superego’s demands often oppose the id’s, the ego struggles to reconcile the two.

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What developmental stages did Freud propose?

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Freud believed that children pass through a series of PYSCHOSEXUAL stages, during which the ID’S pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct pleasure-sensitive areas of the body called EROGENOUS ZONES

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0-18 months ero. zone

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ORAL

mouth pleasure -> sucking biting chewing

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18-36 months ero zone

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ANAL

pleasure -> bowel/ bladder elimination- coping with demands for control

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3-6 years ero zone

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PHALLIC

pleasure-> genitals -> incestuous feelings

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6 years - puberty ero zone

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LATENCY

dominant sexual feelings

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Puberty ero zone

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GENITAL

Maturation of sexual interests

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What is the Oedipus complex?

Oedipus -> killed dad married mom

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PHALLIC stage -> boys develop unconscious sexual desires for mother and jealousy towards father

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How did Freud believe the child reduced the threat of the Oedipus complex?

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COPED with threatening feelings by REPRESSION and IDENTIFYING with rival parent
SUPEREGOS gain strengths-> incorporate parental values

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What is the Electra complex?

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Parallel idea for girls

IDENTIFICATION with mother figure to DIFFUSE unconscious tension

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forming gender identity

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IDENTIFICATION with same sex parent

SENSE of male, female, or combo

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What is fixation?

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LINGERING focus of pleasure-seeking energies
at an earlier psychosexual stage, in
which conflicts were UNRESOLVED

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How does unresolved conflicts result in maladaptive behavior in adult years?

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At any point in the oral, anal, or phallic stages,
strong conflict could lock, or fixate, the person’s
pleasure-seeking energies in that stage.

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What is an example of a fixation?

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ORAL overindulged-> fixate at oral stage -> passive dependence/ exaggerate denial of dependence
ORAL GRATIFICATION

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How did Freud believe people defended themselves against anxiety?

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defense mechanisms —tactics that reduce

or redirect anxiety by distorting reality

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Defense mechanisms

RRPRDSD

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Regression
Reaction formation
Projection
Rationalization
Displacement
Sublimation
Denial
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Regression

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Retreating to earlier psychosexual stages due to fixation

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Regression example

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Going to grandmother’s house to play cards and eat cookies

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Reaction formation

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Switching unacceptable impulses into opposites

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Reaction formation example

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Making big show about expressing indifference at “stupid soccer team”

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Projection

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Disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to otters

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Projection example

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Talks a lot about how mad his parents is at the coach

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Rationalization

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Offering self justifying explanations in place of real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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Rationalization example

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Explains he wasn’t working very hard and could have made the team if he really wanted to

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Displacement

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Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

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Displacement example

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Yelling at little brother for no real reason

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Sublimation

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Transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives

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Sublimation example

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Decides to join cross country running team where all are accepted

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Denial

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Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities

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Denial example

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Insists that there was an error on the team list and he is going to set things right with the coach

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What are defense mechanisms

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the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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how did Freud believe defensive mechanism function?

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For Freud, all defense mechanisms function
INDIRECTLY and UNCONSCIOUSLY
ego unconsciously defend itself against anxiety.

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What is repression?

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basic defense
mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
UNDERLIES all other defense mechanisms

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What are “Freudian slips?”

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GLIMPSE into the UNCONSCIOUS

Freud also viewed jokes as expressions of repressed sexual and aggressive tendencies.

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What did Freud believe about dreams?

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ROYAL ROAD to unconscious
Manifest content is a CENSORED expression of latent content
INNER CONFLICT

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Who were the neo-Freudians?

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Pioneering psychoanalysts who adopted Freud’s interviewing techniques and basic ideas

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Who was Alfred Adler?

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Struggled with childhood illness and accidents

Believed much of behavior driven by efforts to conquer childhood inferiority feelings

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Who was Karen Horney?

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Horney said childhood anxiety triggers our desire for love and security.

She also opposed Freud’s assumptions that women have weak superegos and suffer “penis envy

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Who was Carl Jung?

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Jung believed the unconscious contains more than our repressed thoughts and feelings.
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS, a common reservoir of images, or archetypes, derived from our species’
universal experiences.

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What are examples of archetypes?

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Hero, Rebel, Caregiver, Innocent -> examples of twelve archetypes
DEEP EMOTIONS
dominate personality

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What is the collective unconscious?

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explains why, for many people, spiritual concerns are deeply rooted and why people in different cultures share certain myths (such as the flood myth) and images.

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Does collective unconscious still applies today?

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Discounted by many

Evolutionary history shaped some universal dispositions

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What is a projective test?

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a personality test that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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Personality test vs objective questionnaires

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Road into unconscious to unearth residue of early childhood experiences

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What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?

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a projective test in which people express their inner feelings
and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous
scenes

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How does the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) work?

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“As a rule,” said Henry Murray, developer of the TAT, “the subject leaves the test happily unaware that he has presented the psychologist with what amounts to an X-ray of his inner self.”

VALID and RELIABLE map of people’s implicit motives

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What is the Rorschach inkblot test?

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the most widely used projective test; a set of 10 inkblots, designed by
Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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How does the Rorschach inkblot test work?

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people tell what they see in a series of symmetrical inkblots.
Cherished by some/ seen as being subjective by others

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How is the Rorschach inkblot test criticized?

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Unreliable/ invalid

Inaccurately diagnosed many healthy adults as pathological

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How do contemporary psychologists view Freud’s psychoanalysis?

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Recent research contradict many ideas

Development is lifelong not fixed in childhood-> underestimated peer influence

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How do Freud’s theories fall short?

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Psychologists further criticize Freud’s theory for its scientific shortcomings.
Very SUBJECTIVE as aligning with Freud’s own recollection/ interpretations

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What is the most serious problem with Freud’s theory?

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It offers after-the-fact explanations of any characteristic, yet fails to predict such behaviors and traits.
A good theory makes testable predictions.

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How do Freud’s supporters respond?

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Freud never claimed that psychoanalysis
was predictive science.
He merely claimed that, looking back, psychoanalysts could find meaning in our state of mind.

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How has Freud’s idea of reaction formation been supported in the research?

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Anti gay research reaction formation

Compared with those who did not report such attitudes, these antigay men experienced greater arousal when watching videos of homosexual men having sex.
Likewise, some evidence suggests that people who unconsciously identify as homosexual—but who consciously identify as straight—report more negative
attitudes toward gays.

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How might Freud’s theories have been correct?

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Research has supported Freud’s idea that we unconsciously defend ourselves against anxiety. Researchers have proposed that one source of anxiety is “the terror resulting from our awareness of vulnerability and death”

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What are terror-management defenses?

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Death anxiety increases terror-management defenses such as AGGRESSION toward rivals and ESTEEM for oneself.
Faced with a threatening world, people act not only to ENHANCE their self-esteem but also to ADHERE more strongly to worldviews that answer questions about life’s meaning.

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What is terror-management theory?

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a theory of death-related anxiety;
explores people’s emotional and
behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

77
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Was Freud right about the unconscious?

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Freud was right about a big idea that underlies today’s psychodynamic thinking: We have
LIMITED ACCESS to all that goes on in our mind.

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How did humanistic psychologists view personality?

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emphasized the ways people strive
for self-determination and self-realization.
own self-reported experiences and feelings.

79
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What were Abraham Maslow’s beliefs?

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Any theory of
motivation that is worthy of attention must deal with the highest capacities
of the healthy and strong person as well as with the defensive maneuvers
of crippled spirits”

80
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What is a hierarchy of needs?

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physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher level safety needs and then psychological needs are addressed

81
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Order on hierarchy of needs

PSBESS

A 
Physiological
Safety
Belongingness and love
Esteem
Self-actualization
self-transcendence
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Physiological needs

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Need to satisfy hunger and thirst

83
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Safety needs

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Need to feel that the world is organized / predictable/ safe

84
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Belongingness and love needs

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Need to love/ be loved, belong, accepted/ Avoid loneliness and separation

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Esteem needs

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Need for self-esteem, achievement, competence, independence, recognition, respect

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Self-actualization needs

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Need to live up to our fullest and unique potential

87
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Self-transcendence needs

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Need to find meaning and identity beyond the self

88
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How did Carl Rogers view personality development?

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Rogers’ person-centered perspective held that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies.

89
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What does a growth-promoting social climate consist of?

A

Acceptance
Genuineness
Empathy

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Acceptance

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offer unconditional positive regard`

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Genuineness

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they are open with their own feelings, drop their

facades, and are transparent and self-disclosing.

92
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empathy

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they share and mirror other’s feelings and reflect

their meanings.

93
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What is unconditional positive regard?

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a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental
attitude, which Carl Rogers
believed would help people
develop self-awareness and
self-acceptance
94
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What is self-concept?

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in

answer to the question, “Who am I?”

95
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How does self concept relates to world biew?

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Positive -> acting/ perceiving world to be positive

Negative -> dissatisfied/ unhappy

96
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How did humanistic psychologists assess a person’s sense of self?

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fill out
questionnaires that would evaluate their self-concept. One questionnaire, inspired by
Carl Rogers, asked people to describe themselves both as they would ideally like to be and
as they actually are.
When the ideal and the actual self are nearly alike, said Rogers, the self-concept is positive.

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How have humanistic theories influenced psychology?

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Maslow’s and Rogers’ ideas have influenced counseling, education, child raising, and management.

The humanists laid the groundwork for today’s scientific positive psychology subfield and help renewed interest in the concept of the self.

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What criticisms have humanists faced?

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VAGUE and SUBJECTIVE
Emphasis on INDIVIDUALISM -> self-indulgence, selfishness, erosion of moral restraint
NAIVE -> not realistic enough

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What is a trait?

A 
a characteristic pattern
of behavior or a disposition to
feel and act in certain ways, as
assessed by self-report inventories
and peer reports
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How do psychologists use traits to describe personality?

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Trait theorists were more concerned with explaining individual traits than describing them

101
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What are the limitations of relying on traits to classify individuals?

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Classifying people as one or another distinct personality type fails to capture their full individuality.
We are each a unique complex of multiple traits.

102
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What are two possible dimensions on which to place people?

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Extroversion - introversion

Emotional stability- instability

103
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How has the idea been tested?

A

People in 35 countries around the world, from China to Uganda to Russia, have taken the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.
When their answers were analyzed, the extroversion and emotionality factors inevitably emerged as basic personality dimensions.

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What is introversion?

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Seeking low levels of stimulation from environment because they’re sensitive
NOT SHYNESS

105
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What is extroversion?

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Seeking high levels of simulation

Valued in Western cultures -> Success

106
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What is a personality inventory

A 
an objective questionnaire (often with true-false
or agree-disagree items) on which
people respond to items designed
to gauge a wide range of feelings
and behaviors; used to assess
selected personality traits
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What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

A

the most widely researched and clinically
used of all objective personality tests
Originally developed to identify emotional disorders

108
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How is the MMPI designed?

A

Over 500 empirically derived self-report T/F questions are asked.
Answer compared with those given by people who have disorders
More similar answers -> More indication of disorder

109
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What is an empirically-derived test?

A

a test such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) created by
selecting from a pool of items those
that discriminate between groups

110
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What are the scales on the MMPI?

A 
10 clinical scales
Depressive tendencies
Masculinity-femininity
Intro/extraversion
Additional scales
Work attitudes
Anger
family problems
111
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Which traits provide useful information about personality variation?

A

Simple trait factors do not tell the whole story

BIG 5 does a better job

112
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What are the Big Five personality factors?

CANOE

A 
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Openness
Extraversion
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What is conscientiousness?

A

Highly conscientious individuals tend to be highly ORGANIZED with great attention to DETAIL. They are also GOAL-ORIENTED and driven to SUCCEED.

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What is agreeableness?

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People high in agreeableness are cooperative, empathetic and caring. They enjoy helping and being part of a group.

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What is neuroticism?

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People high in neuroticism experience mood swings and are often irritable. They worry about many things and get upset and anxious easily.

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What is openness?

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People high in openness are creative and adventurous. They enjoy trying new things and taking on new challenges.

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What is extraversion?

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People high in extraversion are outgoing and gain energy from being with others. They like to meet new people, start conversations and have a wide variety of friendships.

118
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Are personality traits consistent over time?

A

May seem stable

New situations and major life events can shift the personality traits we express.

119
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What is the person-situation controversy?

A

Our behavior is influenced by the interaction of our inner disposition with our environment.
Which is MORE IMPORTANT?

120
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Is personality stable?

A

With age, personality traits become more stable, as reflected in the stronger correlation of trait scores with follow-up scores 7 years later.

121
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Do traits = behaviors?

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Although our personality traits may be both stable and

strong, the consistency of our specific behaviors from one situation to the next is another matter.

122
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When do environments limit or encourage expression of traits?

A

unfamiliar/formal situations -> traits remain hidden

familiar/ informal situations -> less constrained

123
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What is the social-cognitive perspective?

A

views behavior as influenced by the INTERACTION between people’s TRAITS (including their thinking)
and their social CONtEXT

124
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What is the behavioral approach?

A

focuses on the effects of LEARNING on our
personality DEVELOPMENT
CONDITIONED to repeat certain behaviors

125
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How do the two approaches relate?

A

Social cognitive theorists consider the BEHAVIORAL perspective/ emphasize THINKING
How we and environment INTERACT

126
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What is reciprocal determinism?

A

the INTERACTING influences of BEHAVIOR, INTERNAL

COGNITION, AND ENVIRONMENT

127
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How does reciprocal determinism explain personality development?

A

our personalities are shaped by the interaction of our personal traits (including our thoughts and feelings), our environment, and our behaviors.

128
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What are three specific ways in which individuals and environments interact?

A

diff. ppl choose diff. env’t
Personalities shape how we INTERPRET and REACT
Personalities create SITUATIONS to which we REACT

129
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Different people choose different environments.

A

…the reading you do, the shows you watch, the music you listen to…

130
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Our personalities shape how we interpret and react

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If we perceive the world as threatening, we watch for threats and prepare to defend ourselves.

131
Q

Our personalities create situations to which we react.

A

How we view and treat

people influences how they then treat us.

132
Q

Biological influence on personality

A

Genetically determined temperament
Autonomic nervous system reactivity
Brain activity

133
Q

Psychological influences on personality

A

Learned responses
Unconscious thought processes
Expectations & interpretations

134
Q

Social-cultural influences on personality

A

Childhood experiences
Situational factors
Cultural expectations
Social support

135
Q

What is the gene-environment interaction?

A

Our genetically influenced traits evoke certain responses from others, which may nudge us in one direction or another.

136
Q

Behavior emerges from the interplay of ——- and ——- influences

A

inernal

external

137
Q

Why are assessment centers the best predictor of personality and behavior?

A

Rather, the best PREDICTOR of future behavior

is the person’s PAST behavior patterns in SIMILAR situations.

138
Q

What criticisms have social-cognitive theorists faced?

A

TOO MUCH FOCUS on SITUATION/ fail to appreciate inner traits

UNDEREMPHASIZING importance of unconscious motives, emotions, biological traits

139
Q

Why has psychology generated so much research on the self?

A

Psychology’s concern with our sense of self dates back at least to William James

140
Q

Self in today’s world

A

the self is one of Western psychology’s most vigorously researched topics.

141
Q

Where is the self located in the brain?

A

Neuroscientists have searched for the self, by identifying a CENTRAL frontal lobe region that ACTIVATES when people respond to self-reflective questions about their traits and dispositions

142
Q

what is the self?

A

assumed to be the CENTER of personality, the ORGANIZER of our
thoughts, feelings, and actions
WHO AM I

143
Q

What are possible selves?

A

Visions of the self you DREAM of becoming and the self you FEAR becoming

144
Q

What is the spotlight effect?

A

OVERESTIMATING
others’ noticing and EVALUATING
our appearance, performance

145
Q

What research has been conducted on the spotlight effect?

A

Cornell students -> wearing shirts with Barry Manilow printed on it
Estimated half of peers will pay attention

146
Q

What were the results of the study?

A

In reality, only 23 percent of the students’ classmates noticed the Barry Manilow shirt.

147
Q

self-esteem

A

one’s feelings of high or low self-worth

How you feel about yourself

148
Q

self-efficacy

A

one’s sense of competence and effectiveness

Belief about our ability to do something

149
Q

What are the benefits of high self-esteem?

A

Improved sleep
Succumb less easily to pressures
More persistent at difficult tasks

150
Q

What are the effects of low self-esteem?

A

Oversensitive & judgemental

151
Q

What is the drawback to excessive optimism?

A

BLIND us to real risks

Natural positive thinking bias -> “unrealistic optimism about future life events”

152
Q

What does it mean to be blind to one’s own incompetence?

A

People often are most overconfident when most incompetent.

Dunning-Kruger effect

153
Q

What is a self-serving bias?

A

a readiness to

perceive oneself favorably

154
Q

People accept —- responsibility for good deed than for bad, and for successes than for failures.

A

MORE
Students with poor test grades criticize teacher or test
Athletes credit victories to own prowess

155
Q

Most people see themselves as —— than average.

A

average
90% of business managers and more than 90% of college professors also rated their performance as superior to that of their average peer.

156
Q

What is narcissism?

A

excessive self-love and self-absorption

materialistic, desire fame, inflated expectation, hook up more without commitment

157
Q

What are some negative effects of narcissism?

A 
forgive less
game-playing approach to romantic relations
Sexually forceful behavior
Active on social media
enraged when criticized
158
Q

Secure self-esteem

A

Less contingent on external evaluations
Accepted for who we are
Enables us to focus beyond the self

159
Q

Defensive self-esteem

A

Sustaining itself
Makes criticism feel threatening
respond to perceived threats with anger/ aggression

160
Q

individualism

A

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

161
Q

collectivism

A

giving priority to
the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity
accordingly

162
Q

What characterizes an individualist culture?

A

INDEPENDENT ME
awareness of unique personal convictions/values
prioritize personal goals
personal control/ individual achievement

163
Q

How are Americans’ individualistic tendencies reflected in baby names?

A

In recent years, the percentage of American babies receiving one of that year’s 10 most common
names has plunged.

164
Q

What characterizes a collectivist culture?

A

Sense of belonging, set of common values, assurance of security
Deep attachments to groups
Elders receive respect

165
Q

How might collectivist cultures respond to disaster?

A

Japan’s collectivist values, including duty to others and social harmony, were on display after the devastating 2011
earthquake and tsunami.
Virtually no looting was reported, and residents remained orderly, as shown above waiting for drinking water.

166
Q

Self I v C

A

I-> independent

C-> interdependent

167
Q

Life task I vs C

A

I-> discover & express one’s uniqueness

C-> maintain connections, fit in

168
Q

What matters I vs C

A

I-> Me

C-> Us

169
Q

Coping method I vs C

A

I-> Change reality

C-> accommodate to reality

170
Q

Morality I vs C

A

I-> defined by individual

C-> defined by social networks

171
Q

Relationships I vs C

A

I-> many, often casual/ confrontation acceptable

C-> few, close & enduring, harmony is valued

172
Q

Attributing behavior I vs C

A

I-> reflects individual’s personality & attitudes

C-> reflects social normas & roles

AP Psychology (14 decks)

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