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17 Cards in this Set
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definition of personality
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an individual's unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving
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Freud's Idea of the mind
CONSCIOUS |
all the conscious thoughts, feelings and sensations that you are aware of at this moment represents this level
-top of the ice berg |
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Freud's Idea of the mind
Preconscious |
information that you're not currently aware of
--you can easily bring to conscious awareness ie---> memories of recent events ---your street address middle of the ice berg |
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Freud's Idea of the mind
Unconscious |
you're not aware of these thoughts, feelings, wishes and drives.
--they are submerged below the preconscious and conscious water line the ocean floor |
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Freuds view of the personality structure
ID |
the ID is irrational component, illogical, implusive dimension of personality.
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Freuds view of the personality structure
SUPER EGO |
rigid, punishing and repressing judgemental, perfectionist
dimension of personality. |
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Freuds view of the personality structure
EGO |
deals with the world and reality
constantly demanding with the ID -rational, planful, mediating dimension of personality |
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Projective Tests
THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST TAT |
--a person is to make up a story from a picture that the psychologist hands them
-the psychologist is hoping that the person will describe whats happening in the picture/story relates to their personal life. --very controversial =--poor validity and reliability ` |
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Rorschach ink blot test
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IMAGES, ink blots images
some are in color or black and white picture problem is that this isnt reliable , its not measured consistantly |
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validity
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does the test measure what is suppose to measure
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The humanistic perspective
ABRAHAM MASLOW |
theory that motivation emphazies psychological growth
--focuses on the motivation of people to grow psychologically and influence their interpersonal relationships on a person's self concept. |
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the humanistic perspective
carl rogers |
was a humanistic psychologist who agreed with the main assumptions of Abraham Maslow,
-- but added that for a person to "grow", they need an environment that provides them with genuineness (openness and self-disclosure), acceptance (being seen with unconditional positive regard), and empathy (being listened to and understood). |
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self efficacy
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your belief that you can actually accomplish a task.
--remeber the book the little engine that could --he always said "i think i can, i think i can'!!! |
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MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY
MMPR |
-an objective personality test--- used in certain careers . the test is suppose to ask and see how emotionally depressed
--they do this test to people who may be going into the police force--you don't want a emotional cop --- |
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the big five factors
OCEAN |
-These 5 dimensions represents the structural organization of personality traits
OCEAN O- openess to experience ---your creativity and imagination C-conscientiousness --(+) people who are self discliplined and very organized (-) people who are the complete oppostite E-Extraversion-- people who are outgoing!! (-) introversal --people who are quiet and reserve A-- agreeableness -->easy, outgoing, flexible N-Neurotism--> whether you are mentally stable or unstable. |
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Longitudinal testing
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- testing a certain age group over a period of time
--you have a group of 13 year olds and give them a series of questions, you then see them every 2 years with the same questions. --may end study when they turn 18 years of age |
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Cross sectional Design
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conducting experiments on different age groups.
example test --you bring in 5 groups of people ages 13,17,15,18 & 22 --minister survey about technology or video games |
