Chapter 10, 11, 12, 13

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Personality

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The characteristics that make you who you are. such as thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persist over time and across situations.

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Psychodynamic Theory

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Personality theories that assume that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which they have no control.

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Sigmund Freud- ID, EGO, SUPEREGO

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ID- pleasure principle *feels good, do it*

EGO- Reality

SUPEREGO- Don't do it, conscious

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Libido

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sexualized sense of pleasure

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Carl Jung/ personal unconscious/ collective unconscious

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Not only do you have your conscious, you have other past conscious as well

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Alfred Adler

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He differed from Freud and saw people as positive

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Compensation

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Ray Charles and Steve wonder are both blind but could still show talent through musical abilities.

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Erik Erikson: psychosocial theory

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trust/ mistrust

autonomy/ shame & doubt

initiative/guilt

industry/inferiority

identity/role confusion

intimacy/isolation

Generatively/ stagnation

Ego identity/ despair

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Humanistic theory

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any personality that suggests that fundamental goodness of people and their striving towards higher levels of functioning.

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Personality Traits

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dimensions or characteristics on which people differ in distinctive ways

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assessing of personality

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*the personal interview "therapy"

*direct observation "knowing your being watched"

*emotional stability

*openness to experience/culture/intellect

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stress

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a persons response to events that are threatening and challenging.

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stressor

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any environmental demand that creates a state of tension or threat and requires change or adaptation.

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adjustment

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any effort to cope with stress

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health psychology

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a branch of psychology that investigates the psychological factors related to wellness and illness, including prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems

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psychoneuroimmunology

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a new field that studies the interaction between stress on the one hand and immune, endocrine, and nervous system activity on the other hand.

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Cataclysmic stressors

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strong stressors that occur suddenly, affecting many people at once.

ex. natural disasters

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Personal stressors

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major life events that have immediate consequences that generally fade with time

ex. death in family

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background stressors

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everyday annoyances that cause major irritations and may have long term ill effects if they continue.

ex. being stuck in traffic

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Type A personality

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cluster of behaviors involving hostility, competitiveness, and time urgency

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Type B personality

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cluster of behaviors involving patience, cooperation, and non competitive nature.

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What does stress do?

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immune system can have decreased capacity, people who are stressed may participate in in behaviors to heart disease, such as smoking or over eating

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What is abnormality?

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deviation from the average, a sense of personal discomfort, a legal concept, and the inability to function effectively

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DSM 5

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used to classify mental disorders

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Anxiety disorders

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Having a panic attack, phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder