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WINTER Chapter 12: Personality and Individual Differences Flashcards

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What is a person’s unique and relatively stable pattern of thinking, emotion, and behaviour?

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Personality

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What is a general pattern of attention, arousal, and mood that is evidence from birth?

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Temperament

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What is the perception of one’s own personality traits?

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Self-concept

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What involves regarding oneself as a worthwhile person? It is a positive evaluation of oneself.

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Self-esteem

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What is a system of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles used to understand and explain personality?

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Personality theory

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What is the Freudian theory of personality that emphasizes unconscious forces and conflicts?

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Psychoanalytic theory

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What is the component of Freud’s personality theory containing primitve drives present at birth?

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Id

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What, according to Freud, is the id’s drive to avoid pain and seek what feels good?

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Pleasure principle

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What is the mind, mental life, and personality as a whole?

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Psych

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What, in Freudian theory, is the force, primarily pleasure oriented, that energized personality?

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Libido

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What is Freud’s name for the “life instincts?”

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Eros

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Wha is the death instinct postulated by Freud?

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Thanatos

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What, according to Freud, is the decision-making part of personality that operates on the reality principle?

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Ego

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What is the principle of delaying action (or pleasure) until it is appropriate?

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Reality principle

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What, according to Freud, is the part of personality that represents moral conscience?

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Superego

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What is the term describing the contents of the mind that are beyond awareness, especially impulses and desires?

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Unconscious

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What is the region of the mind that includes all mental contents that a person is aware of at any given moment?

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Conscious

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What is an area of the mind containing information that can be voluntarily brought to awareness?

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Preconscious

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How does Freud classify periods of development?

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Psychosexual stages

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What is any body area that produces pleasurable sensations?

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Erogenous zone

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What is a lasting conflict developed as a result of frustration or overindulgence?

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Fixation

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What, according to Alfred Adler, is the basic drive that propels us toward perfection?

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Striving for superiority

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What arises when feelings of inferiority become overwhelming? It is a negatie pattern characterized by a chronic lack of self-worth along with self-doubt.

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Inferiority complex

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What is a primary form of anxiety that arises from living in a hostile world?

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Basic anxiety

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What is the “mask” or public self prsented to others?

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Persona

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What is a mental storehouse for an individual’s unconscious thoughts?

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Personal unconscious

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What, according to Carl Jung, is a mental storehouse for unconscious ideas and images shared by all humans?

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Collective unconscious

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What, according to Carl Jung, is a universal idea, image, or pattern found in the collective unconscious?

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Archetype

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What is a name for any of the models of personality that emphasize learning and observable behaviour?

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Behavioural personality theory

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What is a deeply ingrained, learned pattern of behaviour?

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Habit

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What are external conditions that strongly influence behaviour?

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Situational determinants

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What is a theory that combines learning principles with cognitive processes, socialization, and modeling, to explain bheaviour, including personality?

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Social learning theory

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What is a situation as it is peceived and interpreted by an individual, not as it exists objectively?

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Psychological situation

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What is anticipation about the effect that a response will have, especially regarding reinforcement?

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Expectancy

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What is the belief in your capacity to produce a desired result?

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Self-efficacy

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What is the subjective value that a person attaches to a particular activity or reinforcer?

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Reinforcement value

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What is praising or rewarding oneself for having made a particular response (such as completing a school assignment)?

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Self-reinforcement

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What is praise, attention, approval, and/or affection from others?

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Social reinforcement

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What are patterns of behaviours regarded as “male” or “female” within a culture?

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Gender roles

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What is feeling emotionally connected to a person and seeing onself as like him or her?

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Identification

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What is an attempt to match one’s own behaviour to another person’s behaviour?

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What is an approach that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals?

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What is the ability to freely make choices that are not controlled by genetics, learning, or unconcsious forces?

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What are those traits, qualities, potentials, and behaviour patterns most characteristic of the human species?

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Human nature

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What is reality as it is perceived and interpreted, not as it exists objectively?

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Subjective experience

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What is the process of fully developing personal potentials?

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Self-actualization

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What is a person living in harmony with her or his deepest feelings, impulses, and intuitions?

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Fully functioning person

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What is a continuously evolving conception of one’s personal identity?

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What is the total subjective perception of one’s body and personality?

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Self-image or self-concept

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What is a state that exists when there is a descrepancy between one’s experiences and self-image or between one’s self-image and ideal self?

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Incongruence

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What is an idealized image of onself (ther person that one would like to be)?

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Ideal self

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What is a collection of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and images concerning the person that one could become?

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Possible selves

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What are the internal standards used to judge the value of one’s thoughts, actions, feelings, or experiences?

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Conditions of worth

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What is a complete, unqualified acceptance of another person as he or she is?

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Unconditional positive regard

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What is the term for thinking of oneself as a good, lovable, worthwhile person?

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Positive self-regard

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What is a stable quality that a person shows in most situations?

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Personality trait

57
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What is a “study of” (more like “term for”) the variation that exists between people?

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Individual differences

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What is the influence that external settings or circumstances have on the expression of personality traits?

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Trait-situation interaction

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What are the core traits that characterize an individual personality?

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Central traits

60
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What are the traits that are inconsistent or relatively superficial?

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Secondary traits

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What are the basic underlying traits, or dimensions, of personality? Each one is reflected in a number of surface traits.

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Source traits (factors)

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What is a statistical technique used to correlate multiple measurements and identify general underlying factors?

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Factor analysis

63
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What is the theory where only a handful of characteristics account for most individual differences in personality?

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Big Five personality traits

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What are qualities of individuals that are not extreme enough to merit a psychiatric diagnosis?

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Subclinical (traits)

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What is a style of personality defined by a group of related traits?

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Personality type

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What is a face-to-face meeting held for the purpose of gaining information about an individual’s personal history, personality traits, current psychological state, and so forth?

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Interview (personality)

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What is an interview in which conversation is informal and topics are taken up freely as they arise?

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Unstructured interview

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What is an interview that follows a prearranged plan, usually a series of planned questions?

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Structured interview

69
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What is the tendency to generalize a favourable or unfavourable particular impression to unrelated details of personality?

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Halo effect

70
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What is assessing behaviour through direct surveillance?

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Direct observation

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What is a list of personality traits or aspects of behaviours on which a person is rated?

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Rating scale

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What is the recording of the frequency of various behaviours?

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Behavioural assessment

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What is it when real-life conditions are simulated so that a person’s reactions may be directly observed?

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Situational test

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What is a paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that reveal aspects of personality?

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Personality inventory

75
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What is a test that gives the same score when different people take it?

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Objective test

76
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What term refers to the stability of test scores over time?

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Reliability

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What is the degree to which a test measures the trait that it was designed to?

78
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What is a standard used to compare an individual’s performance on a test with that of others?

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What is a standardized test designed to identify problem areas of functioning in an individual’s personality?

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

80
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What are personality tests that use ambiguous or unstructured stimuli?

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Projective tests

81
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What is a projective test that consists of complex, irregular monochromatic shapes?

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

82
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What is a projective test consisting of 20 different scenes and life situations about which respondents make up stories?

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

83
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What is the study of inherited behavioural traits and tendencies?

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Behavioural genetics

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