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personality
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behavior, thoughts, motives that characterize individuals
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trait
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characteristic of an individual
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psychoanalysis
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theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud. Emphasized the uncouncious
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psychodynamic theories
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theories that explain behavior and personality in terms of uncounscious dynamics within the individual
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Id
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the part of personality containing inherited psychic energy, particularly sexual and aggressive instincts
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libido
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sex drive
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ego
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the part of personality that represents, REASOn , good sense and self control
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superego
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represents councious morality and social standards
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defense mechanisms
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methods used by the ego to prevent uncouncious anxiety form entering the counciousness; 6 common ones
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repression
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blocking an old bad memory
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projection
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a persons own's feeling are projected unto someone else
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displacement
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taking out feelings on someone that didn't cause them
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Reaction formation
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taking a negative feeling and converting it to a positive one
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regression
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occurs when a feeling/habit comes back due to stress/anxiety
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denial
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occurs when someone refuses to admit something unpleasant
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psychosexual stages
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oral, anal, phallic (oedipal), latency, genital
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oedipus complex
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a child desires parent of opposite sex and viewing same sex as rival
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Clara Thompson & Karen Horny
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disputed penis envy, said men had womb envy
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Carl Jung
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"Jungian Theory" all human beings share a collective uncouncios, containing archetypes
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archetype
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are universal memories, symbols, images (pics), themes
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shadow
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reflect prehistoric fear of wild animals and represents EVIL side of human nature
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anima and animus
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anima: feminime archetype in men
animus: masculine archetype in women feminine/masculine characteristics |
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object relation school
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a psychodynamic approach that emphesizes the infants first two years of life especially with mother
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mental representation
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representations of the mind
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illusion of causality
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A does not necessarily cause B
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objective test
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standardized questionnaires requiring written responses
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Gordon Allport
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most of us have between 5 to 10 personality traits
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central traits
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a characteristic way of behaving, dealing, and reacting to new situations
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secondary traits
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changeable aspects of personality
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Raymund B Catell
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developed factor analysis
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factor analysis
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a method for analysing the inter correlations among various measures of test scores
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The big 5 personality traits
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1. extraversion vs. intraversion
2. neurasism vs. emotional stability 3. agreeableness vs. antagonism 4. conscientiousness vs. impulsiveness 5. openess vs. resistance |
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genes
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functional units of heredity composed of DNA
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temperament
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disposition to respond to the enviroment in certain ways
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heritability
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how much of a trait is attributable to genetics
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behavioral genetics
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field of study concerned with genetic diferences between behavior and personality
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social cognitive learning theory
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view of personality which holds personality traits resulting from a person's learning history and his or her expectations beliefs, perceptions of events, and other cognitions
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reciprocal determinism
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a two way interaction between aspects of the enviroment and aspects of the individual in the shaping of personality traits
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nonshared enviroment
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unique aspects of a person's enviroment and experience that are not shared with family members
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culture
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values, beliefs and attitudes shared by a society
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culture of honor
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trivial insults that degrade a man's honor causing him to retaliate to regain honor
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Abraham Moslow
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Humanist dude. Self-actualization.
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Self-actualization
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the person who strives for HAPPINESS. A life that is challenging, meaninful and satisfaying
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Carl Rogers
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Humanist whore. Fully functional individual. Fully fuctional people experience harmony.
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congruance
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harmony. Warm, trusting, openess "Unconditional positive regard"
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unconditional positive regard
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Roger's deal. unconditional love.
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Rollo May
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Free will and freedom of choice. White MLK.
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extentialism
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a philosophic approach that emphasized the inevitable dilemmas and chanlenges of human existense
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