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Personality |
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. |
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Psychoanalysis |
Thoughts and actions are controlled by unconscious motives and conflicts. |
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Free Association |
Method where there is a stream of thoughts associated with words to find what the hidden issue is. |
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Personality Structure (ID) |
Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. |
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Superego |
The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement. |
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Ego Ideal |
Individual's view of the kind of person he or she should strive to be. |
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Oral Psychosexual Stage (0-18months) |
Pleasure sought through oral stimulation. |
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Anal Psychosexual Stage (18-36months) |
Pleasure obtained from stimulation of the bladder and bowel function. |
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Phalic Psychosexual Stage (3-6years) |
Pleasure obtained through stimulation of genitals. |
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Oedipus Complex |
Boy's sexual desires towards his mother. |
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Electra Complex |
Girl's experience with her father. |
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Identification |
Child incorporates their parents' values into their developing ego, also gender identity based on same-sex parent. |
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Latency Psychosexual Stage (6 years- puberty) |
Repression of sexual and aggressive desires. |
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Genital Psychosexual Stage (Puberty- on) |
Mature sexual relationships. |
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Fixate |
Occurs when psychosexual development is stopped at an immature stage. |
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Ego Defense Mechanisms |
Unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety. |
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Repression |
An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory. |
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Regression |
Adopting immature behaviors that were effective ways of dealing with stress when a person was younger. |
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Reaction Formation |
When people act in the opposite to their true feelings. |
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Projection |
Being upset or aroused may use projection "blaming" to attribute our own desires to other people or objects. |
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Rationalization |
Giving socially acceptable reasons for actions that are based on motives that they believe are unacceptable. |
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Displacement |
Putting your anger or frustrations onto something or someone else that didn't cause them. |
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Sublimation |
Gratifying sexual or aggressive desires in ways that are acceptable in one's culture. |
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Denial |
Denying taking personal responsibility for a personal action. |
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Neo-Freudians |
Agreed with unconscious, personality in children, and defense mechanisms. But not the minds role in sex and aggression. |
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Carl Jung |
Student of Freud that later dissented him. |
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Personal Unconscious |
Unconscious drives corresponding roughly to the ID. |
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Collective Unconscious |
A reservoir for instinctive memories including the archetypes which exist in all people. |
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Archetypes |
Your ideal prototype. |
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Projective Tests |
A personality test that triggers projection of one's inner dynamic. |
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
People express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. |
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Rorschach Inkblot Test |
A set of 10 inkblots that seeks to identify a person's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots. |
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Self Actualization |
Motivation to fulfill one's potential. |
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Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Perspective |
Required 3 conditions; genuineness, empathy, and acceptance. |
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Genuine |
People nurture our growth by being genuine and being open with their feelings. |
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Accepting |
Offering unconditional positive regard. |
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Unconditional Positive Regard |
An attitude of total acceptance towards a person, no matter what the situation. |
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Empathy |
Sharing and mirroring our feelings and reflecting our meaning. |
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Fully Functioning Person |
A healthy, self-actualizing individual, who has a self-concept congruent with reality. |
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Self-Concept |
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?". |
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Traits |
Characteristic pattern of behavior to feel and act. |
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Gordon Allport |
Posses 3 types of traits; central traits (base traits), secondary traits (preferences and attitudes), and cardinal traits (define who you are). |
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator |
126 question trait test developed to assess people accordingly to Jung's personality traits. |
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Eysenck Personality Questionnaire |
A personality test that uses the method of factor analysis extraversion-introversion and emotional stability- instability. |
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Personality Inventory |
Designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors. |
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Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI) |
Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. |
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Big Five Personality Factors (CANOE) |
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. |
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Openness |
Curiosity and independence to closed-mindedness and conforming. |
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Conscientiousness |
Dependability and perseverance to impulsiveness and irresponsibility. |
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Extraversion |
Social adaptability and assertiveness to introversion. |
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Agreeableness |
Conformity and like-ability to coldness and negativity. |
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Neuroticism |
Anxiety and emotional to emotional stability and emotional control. |
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Person-situation Controversy |
Contribution of personality factors and situational factors in behaviors. |
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Empirically Derived Test |
Utilizes only items that show cross-validation differences of groups. |
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Barnum Effect |
Tendency to accept favorable descriptions of one's personality that could really be applied to almost anyone. |
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Consistency of Trait Expressiveness |
Animation, manner of speaking, and gestures. |
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Social Cognitive Perspective |
Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and social content. |
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Behavioral Approach |
In personality theory, this focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development. |
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Reciprocal Determinism |
Interacting influences between personality and environment factors. |
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Self |
In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality. |
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Spotlight Effect |
Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance or blunde. |
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Self Esteem |
One's feeling of high or low self-worth. |
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Self-Efficacy |
One's sense of competence and effectiveness. |
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Self-Serving Bias |
Readiness to perceive oneself favorable. |
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Culture |
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmittal from one generation to the next. |
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Collectivism |
Giving priority to the goals of one's group (extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly. |
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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. |