Ap Psych, Chapter 15 - Personality

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personality

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characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, acting

if you are really outgoing, and consistently so, people may say you have a "strong" personality

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free association

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method of exploring unconcious

sit and talk about anything that comes to mind

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psychoanalysis

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techniques used to treat psychological disorders by seeking to expose the tensions

Freud's theory of personality

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unconscious

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reservoir of mainly unacceptable thoughts, feelings...etc

Freud's theory of personality

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id

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strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

operates on the pleasure principle

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ego

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largely conscious part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id and superego

according to Freud

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superego

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represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement

according to freud

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psychosexual stages

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital

the id focuses on certain areas of the body

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Oedipus Complex

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a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the "rival" father

Oedipus Rex

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identification

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process by which children incorporate their parent's values into their superegos

according to Freud

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fixation

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focus of pleasure-seeking energies in psychosexual stages

determines where conflicts were unresolved

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defense mechanisms

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ego's protective methods to reduce stress/anxiety

unconsciously distorts reality

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repression

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basic defense that banishes anxiety

represses thoughts or feelings that provoke

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regression

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defense mechanism that makes a person retreat to a more infantile stage

adult may cuddle with "blankey" for comfort

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reaction formation

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defense mechanism where ego switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites

people may express feelings that are opposite to the ones that cause them stress/anxiety

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projection

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defense mechanism where people disguise their own impulses by attributing them to someone else

blaming someone or directing attention away

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rationalizing

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defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations

takes place of the real, more threatening reasons for an action

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displacement

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defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses to a more acceptable outlet

playing sports for relief of anger

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projective test

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personality test that provides stimuli designed to trigger inner dynamics

personality test like the rorschach

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Thematic Apperception Test

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person is shown an ambiguous scene and is asked to make up a story about it

called the "TAT", colors and other indicators are removed from scene

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Rorschach test

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inkblots to analyze inner feelings

person analyzes blots and explains what he/she sees

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collective unconscious

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concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory

traces from our species' history (Carl Jung)

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self-actualization

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ultimate psychological need that is at the very top of Maslov's pyramid

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unconditional positive regard

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attitude of total acceptance toward another person

according to Rogers

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self-concept

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thoughts and feelings about ourselves

"Who am I?"

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trait

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characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act

assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

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personality inventory

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used to gauge feelings/behaviors

also used to assess selected personality traits

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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MMPI

identifies emotional disorders

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empirically derived test

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developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting that discriminate between groups

ex; MMPI

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social-cognitive perspective

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views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons

and their thinking/social context

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reciprocal determinism

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interacting influences

between personality and environment

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personal control

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our sense of controlling environment

either have control or feel helpless

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external locus of control

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perception that chance or outside forces determine one's fate

beyond personal control

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internal locus of control

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perception that one controls their own fate

"I got this." "I am in control."

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learned helplessness

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hopelessness and passive resignation when you think you can't avoid something

relates to sense of control

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spotlight effect

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overestimating others' noticing you

i wear the same clothes a lot and i feel like people will notice but they really don't care

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self-esteem

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one's feelings or high or low self-worth

mine fluctuates, but it is good to have high self-esteem

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self-serving bias

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readiness to perceive oneself favorably

meh

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individualism

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giving priority to one's goals over group goals

trump

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collectivism

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giving priority to goals of group

sanders

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terror-management theory

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proposes that faith in one's worldview with provide protection against fear of death

is like worth living? idk

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positive psychology

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study of optimal human functioning