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Personality

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Psychoanalysis

Thoughts and actions are controlled by unconscious motives and conflicts.

Free Association

Method where there is a stream of thoughts associated with words to find what the hidden issue is.

Personality Structure (ID)

Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.

Superego

The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement.

Ego Ideal

Individual's view of the kind of person he or she should strive to be.

Oral Psychosexual Stage (0-18months)

Pleasure sought through oral stimulation.

Anal Psychosexual Stage (18-36months)

Pleasure obtained from stimulation of the bladder and bowel function.

Phalic Psychosexual Stage (3-6years)

Pleasure obtained through stimulation of genitals.

Oedipus Complex

Boy's sexual desires towards his mother.

Electra Complex

Girl's experience with her father.

Identification

Child incorporates their parents' values into their developing ego, also gender identity based on same-sex parent.

Latency Psychosexual Stage (6 years- puberty)

Repression of sexual and aggressive desires.

Genital Psychosexual Stage (Puberty- on)

Mature sexual relationships.

Fixate

Occurs when psychosexual development is stopped at an immature stage.

Ego Defense Mechanisms

Unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety.

Repression

An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory.

Regression

Adopting immature behaviors that were effective ways of dealing with stress when a person was younger.

Reaction Formation

When people act in the opposite to their true feelings.

Projection

Being upset or aroused may use projection "blaming" to attribute our own desires to other people or objects.

Rationalization

Giving socially acceptable reasons for actions that are based on motives that they believe are unacceptable.

Displacement

Putting your anger or frustrations onto something or someone else that didn't cause them.

Sublimation

Gratifying sexual or aggressive desires in ways that are acceptable in one's culture.

Denial

Denying taking personal responsibility for a personal action.

Neo-Freudians

Agreed with unconscious, personality in children, and defense mechanisms. But not the minds role in sex and aggression.

Carl Jung

Student of Freud that later dissented him.

Personal Unconscious

Unconscious drives corresponding roughly to the ID.

Collective Unconscious

A reservoir for instinctive memories including the archetypes which exist in all people.

Archetypes

Your ideal prototype.

Projective Tests

A personality test that triggers projection of one's inner dynamic.

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

People express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

Rorschach Inkblot Test

A set of 10 inkblots that seeks to identify a person's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

Self Actualization

Motivation to fulfill one's potential.

Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Perspective

Required 3 conditions; genuineness, empathy, and acceptance.

Genuine

People nurture our growth by being genuine and being open with their feelings.

Accepting

Offering unconditional positive regard.

Unconditional Positive Regard

An attitude of total acceptance towards a person, no matter what the situation.

Empathy

Sharing and mirroring our feelings and reflecting our meaning.

Fully Functioning Person

A healthy, self-actualizing individual, who has a self-concept congruent with reality.

Self-Concept

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?".

Traits

Characteristic pattern of behavior to feel and act.

Gordon Allport

Posses 3 types of traits; central traits (base traits), secondary traits (preferences and attitudes), and cardinal traits (define who you are).

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

126 question trait test developed to assess people accordingly to Jung's personality traits.

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

A personality test that uses the method of factor analysis extraversion-introversion and emotional stability- instability.

Personality Inventory

Designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors.

Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests.

Big Five Personality Factors (CANOE)

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.

Openness

Curiosity and independence to closed-mindedness and conforming.

Conscientiousness

Dependability and perseverance to impulsiveness and irresponsibility.

Extraversion

Social adaptability and assertiveness to introversion.

Agreeableness

Conformity and like-ability to coldness and negativity.

Neuroticism

Anxiety and emotional to emotional stability and emotional control.

Person-situation Controversy

Contribution of personality factors and situational factors in behaviors.

Empirically Derived Test

Utilizes only items that show cross-validation differences of groups.

Barnum Effect

Tendency to accept favorable descriptions of one's personality that could really be applied to almost anyone.

Consistency of Trait Expressiveness

Animation, manner of speaking, and gestures.

Social Cognitive Perspective

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and social content.

Behavioral Approach

In personality theory, this focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development.

Reciprocal Determinism

Interacting influences between personality and environment factors.

Self

In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality.

Spotlight Effect

Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance or blunde.

Self Esteem

One's feeling of high or low self-worth.

Self-Efficacy

One's sense of competence and effectiveness.

Self-Serving Bias

Readiness to perceive oneself favorable.

Culture

The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmittal from one generation to the next.

Collectivism

Giving priority to the goals of one's group (extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly.

Individualism

Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identification.