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30 Cards in this Set
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Big Five:
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Trait theory with five constructs of personality: Extraversion, openness, agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability.
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Collective Unconscious:
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Jung's concept of shared inherited memories.
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Collectivism
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Giving priority to group goals over individual goals.
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Defense Mechanism
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Psychodynamic theory's idea of protecting ego by distorting reality.
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Displacement
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Defense mechanism shifting inappropriate desires onto a more acceptable target.
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Ectomorph:
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Sheldon's body type, thin and aggressive.
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Ego
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Part of Freud's theory of personality that makes the decisions.
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Endomorph
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Sheldon's body type, plump and jolly.
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Eysench, Hans:
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Theory with 3 constructs of personlity: psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism.
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Fixate
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Freud's idea that people develop a lingering pleasure from certain stimuli.
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Free Association
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technique to reveal subconscious, say the first thing that comes to mind.
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Gender Identity:
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one's sense of being male or female.
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Id
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Part of Freud's personality theory, wants and desires.
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Identification
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(Freud) Children internalize parent's values into their superego
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Individualism
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Giving priority to one's own goals over the goals of the group.
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Kagan, Jerome:
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Psychologist who studied early child personality (temperament)
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Learned Helplessness:
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Learn to surrender to avoid repeated aversive events.
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Maslow, Abraham
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Humanist psychologist, focused on self-actualization.
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Mesomorph
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Sheldon's body type, muscular and aggressive.
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MMPI
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, test screening for emotional disorders.
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:
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Personality test measuring 4 constructs and 16 possible personality types.
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Neo-Freudian:
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New generation of psychoanalytical theories building on Freud's work.
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Personal Control
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Sense of controlling our environment versus helplessness.
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Personality Inventory
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test measuring personality traits
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Personality
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An individual's unique patter of characteristics effecting behavior.
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Preconsciousness
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Information that is not conscious, but retrievable to conscious.
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Projective Test
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Personality test that attempts to discover subconscious to find and change motivations.
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Psychosexual Stages
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Freud's theory of personality development focusing on sexual pleasure.
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Psychoanalysis
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Freud's therapy technique, examine subconscious to find and change motivations.
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Rationalization
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Defense mechanism replacing self-justifying explanations for threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions.
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