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43 Cards in this Set
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What is a personals unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving?
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Personality
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What are the 4 personality theories?
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1. Psychoanalytic
2. Humanistic 3. Social cognitive perspective 4. Trait |
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In Freud's dynamic theory of personality what are the 3 levels of awareness?
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1. Conscious thoughts/feelings
2. Pre-Conscious thoughts that can be evoked (ie childhood memory) 3. Unconscious that we are not aware of but exerts enormous influence on us |
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What are recation patterns, usually unconscious, which serve the purpose of protecting an individual from anxiety, guilt, and unacceptable impulses?
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Ego defense mechanisms
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According to the psychoanalytic perspective, what is personality?
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Primary patterns of ego defenses
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What is the most fundamental ego defense mechanism?
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Repression - unconscious forgetting
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What is another important defense mechanism?
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Displacement - impulse are redirected to a substitute object or person
(ie kicking the dog) |
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What are the 4 categories of defenses?
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1. Psychotic
2. Immature 3. Neurotic 4. Mature |
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Delusional projection, denial, distortion are part of what defense category?
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Psychotic defenses
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Altruism, humor, suppression, anticipation, and sublimination are types of what defense?
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Mature
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Projection, schizoid fantasy, passive aggressiveness, and acting out are what types of defenses?
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Immature
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Intellectualism, repression, and displacement are what type of defenses?
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Neurotic
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According to the humanistic perspective, what is the most important factor in personality?
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Individual's conscious, subjective perception of his/her self
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What is based on the idea that a person's conscious thought processes in different situations strongly influence his/her actions?
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The social cognitive perspective
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What are the 3 ways that the social cognitive perspective differs from psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives?
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1. Relies heavily on experimental findings
2. Emphasizes conscious, self-regulated behavior 3. Emphasizes that our "sense of self" can vary |
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What is a model that explains human functioning and personality as caused by the interaction of behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors?
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Reciprocal determinism
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What is a key component to the social cognitive perspective?
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The belief of self efficacy
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How does the trait perspective differ from the other three models?
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Focuses primarily on describing INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCS
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What are the 2 types of traits in the trait perspective?
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1. Surface Traits - easily observed traits
2. Source Traits - most basic dimension of personality |
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What were Eysenck 3 basic dimensions of personailty?
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1. Introversion - extroversion
2. Neuroticism - emotional stability 3. Psychoticism |
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What are the "Big Five" Personality Factors?
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1. Extraversion (outgoing/withdrawn)
2. Neuroticism (stable/unstable) 3. Conscientiosness (dependable) 4. Agreeableness (Low/High) 5. Openness to experience (closed/open) |
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Which 2 personality factors are most influenced by genetics?
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1. Extraversion
2. Neuroticism |
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According to the biosocial theory of personality, what are the 3 brain systems?
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1. Behavioral Activation - novelty seeking
2. Behavioral inhibition - harm avoidance 3. Behavioral maintenance - reward dependence |
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What is the NT for the behavioral activation brain system?
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Dopamine
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What is the NT for the behavioral inhibition brain system?
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Serotonin
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What is the NT for the behavioral maintenance system?
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Norepinephrine
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What are "enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of mportant social and personal contexts that cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress"?
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Personality Disorders
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What does it mean that PD symptoms are "ego syntonic"?
What effect does that have on treatment? |
They feel like a normal part of oneself
Therefore easy to feel attacked when diagnosed |
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What is the main feature of cluster A PD's?
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Mean feature is odd or eccentric in nature
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What are 3 types of Cluster A PD's?
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1. Paranoid PD
2. Schizoid PD 3. Schizotypal PD |
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What is the main feature of Cluster B?
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Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior
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What are 4 examples of cluster B PD's?
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1. Antisocial PD
2. Borderlin PD 3. Histrionic PD 4. Narcissistic PD |
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What is the main feature of Cluster C?
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Involves anxiety and feafulness
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What are 3 examples of Cluser C PD's?
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1. Dependent PD
2. Avoidant PD 3. OCD |
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What is a pervasive AND unwarranted belief that others intend to harm?
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Paranoid PD
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A detached loner and pervasive indifference, lack of social skills towards others is typical of what PD?
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Schizoid Personality Disorder
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Peculiarity, eccentricity, and being acutely uncomfortable around others is characteristic of what PD?
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Schizotypal PD
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What PD has shyness, distance, thinks involvement is risky, hypersensitive to evaluation?
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Avoidant PD
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What PD has an excessive need to be taken care of; limited sense of self, no "backbone"?
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Dependent PD
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What PD has a disregard for others thoughts, longstanding irresponsible behavior, lying, stealing, etc?
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antisocial PD
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What PD has "high drama" and is constantly seeking "Attention, reassurance, approval"?
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Histrionic PD
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What PD has grandiose entitlement, see self as unique, feels entitled to admiration, recognition, special privileges, etc?
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Narcissistic PD
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Who is the best boyfriend in the world?
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Kevin!!!!! :) :)
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