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What is a personals unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving?
Personality
What are the 4 personality theories?
1. Psychoanalytic

2. Humanistic

3. Social cognitive perspective

4. Trait
In Freud's dynamic theory of personality what are the 3 levels of awareness?
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
What are recation patterns, usually unconscious, which serve the purpose of protecting an individual from anxiety, guilt, and unacceptable impulses?
Ego defense mechanisms
According to the psychoanalytic perspective, what is personality?
Primary patterns of ego defenses
What is the most fundamental ego defense mechanism?
Repression - unconscious forgetting
What is another important defense mechanism?
Displacement - impulse are redirected to a substitute object or person

(ie kicking the dog)
What are the 4 categories of defenses?
1. Psychotic

2. Immature

3. Neurotic

4. Mature
Delusional projection, denial, distortion are part of what defense category?
Psychotic defenses
Altruism, humor, suppression, anticipation, and sublimination are types of what defense?
Mature
Projection, schizoid fantasy, passive aggressiveness, and acting out are what types of defenses?
Immature
Intellectualism, repression, and displacement are what type of defenses?
Neurotic
According to the humanistic perspective, what is the most important factor in personality?
Individual's conscious, subjective perception of his/her self
What is based on the idea that a person's conscious thought processes in different situations strongly influence his/her actions?
The social cognitive perspective
What are the 3 ways that the social cognitive perspective differs from psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives?
1. Relies heavily on experimental findings

2. Emphasizes conscious, self-regulated behavior

3. Emphasizes that our "sense of self" can vary
What is a model that explains human functioning and personality as caused by the interaction of behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors?
Reciprocal determinism
What is a key component to the social cognitive perspective?
The belief of self efficacy
How does the trait perspective differ from the other three models?
Focuses primarily on describing INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCS
What are the 2 types of traits in the trait perspective?
1. Surface Traits - easily observed traits

2. Source Traits - most basic dimension of personality
What were Eysenck 3 basic dimensions of personailty?
1. Introversion - extroversion

2. Neuroticism - emotional stability

3. Psychoticism
What are the "Big Five" Personality Factors?
1. Extraversion (outgoing/withdrawn)

2. Neuroticism (stable/unstable)

3. Conscientiosness (dependable)

4. Agreeableness (Low/High)

5. Openness to experience (closed/open)
Which 2 personality factors are most influenced by genetics?
1. Extraversion

2. Neuroticism
According to the biosocial theory of personality, what are the 3 brain systems?
1. Behavioral Activation - novelty seeking

2. Behavioral inhibition - harm avoidance

3. Behavioral maintenance - reward dependence
What is the NT for the behavioral activation brain system?
Dopamine
What is the NT for the behavioral inhibition brain system?
Serotonin
What is the NT for the behavioral maintenance system?
Norepinephrine
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"?
Personality Disorders
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
What is the main feature of cluster A PD's?
Mean feature is odd or eccentric in nature
What are 3 types of Cluster A PD's?
1. Paranoid PD

2. Schizoid PD

3. Schizotypal PD
What is the main feature of Cluster B?
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior
What are 4 examples of cluster B PD's?
1. Antisocial PD

2. Borderlin PD

3. Histrionic PD

4. Narcissistic PD
What is the main feature of Cluster C?
Involves anxiety and feafulness
What are 3 examples of Cluser C PD's?
1. Dependent PD

2. Avoidant PD

3. OCD
What is a pervasive AND unwarranted belief that others intend to harm?
Paranoid PD
A detached loner and pervasive indifference, lack of social skills towards others is typical of what PD?
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Peculiarity, eccentricity, and being acutely uncomfortable around others is characteristic of what PD?
Schizotypal PD
What PD has shyness, distance, thinks involvement is risky, hypersensitive to evaluation?
Avoidant PD
What PD has an excessive need to be taken care of; limited sense of self, no "backbone"?
Dependent PD
What PD has a disregard for others thoughts, longstanding irresponsible behavior, lying, stealing, etc?
antisocial PD
What PD has "high drama" and is constantly seeking "Attention, reassurance, approval"?
Histrionic PD
What PD has grandiose entitlement, see self as unique, feels entitled to admiration, recognition, special privileges, etc?
Narcissistic PD
Who is the best boyfriend in the world?
Kevin!!!!! :) :)