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54 Cards in this Set
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the consistent and distinctive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors an individual engage in
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PERSONALITY
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a collction or constellation of traits that describebs the functioning of the person across situations and settings
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PERSONALITY STYLE
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according to freud, the relatively small part of our mind that we are award of at the moment
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CONSCIOUS MIND
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according to freuid, those mental processes that are not currently conscious but could become so at any moment
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PRECONSCIOUS MIND
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according to freud, the thoughts, desires, feelings, and memories that are not consciously available to us bu that nonetheless shape our everyday behavior.
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UNCONCIOUS MIND
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an unconscious part of the mind that contains our sexual and aggressive drives
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ID
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the process by which the id seeks to immediately satisfy whatever desire is currently active
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PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
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the part of our minds that includes our consciousness and that balances the demands of the id, the superego and reality
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EGO
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the process by whih the ego seeks to delay gratification of id desires until appropriate outlets and situations can be found
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REALITY PRINCIPLE
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the part of our minds that includes our conscience and counterbalances the more primitive demands of the id
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SUPEREGO
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the fixed sequence of childhood developmental stages during which the id primarily seeks sexual pleasure by focusing its energies on distinct erogenous zones
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PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES
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a tendency to persist in pleasure-seeking behaviors associated with an earlier psychosexual stage during which conflicts were undresolved
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FIXATION
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in Freud's theory, the first stage of psychosexual dvelopment, ,during which the child derives pleasure by engaging in oral activities
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ORAL STAGE
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in freud's theory the second stage of psychosexual development, during which the child derives pleasure from defecation
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ANAL STAGE
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in freud's theory the 3rd stage of psychosexual development during which the child derives pleasure from masturbation
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PHALLIC STAGE
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in Freud's theory, the fourth stage of psychosexual development, during which the child is relatively free from sexual desires and conflict
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LATENCY STAGE
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in freud's theory, the last stage of psychosexual development, durin which mature seual felings toward others begin to emerge, ,and the ego learns to manage and direct these feelings
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GENITAL STAGE
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in freud's theory, a very basic defense mechanism in which people move anxiety-arousing thoughts from the conscious mind into the unconscious mind
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REPRESSION
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in freud's theory, the ego's methods of keeping threatening and unacceptable material ut of consciousness and thereby reducing anxiety
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS
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a defense mechanism in which people offer logical self-justifying explanations for their actions in place of the real, more anxiety-producing unconscious reasons
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RATIONALIZATION
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a defense mechanism taht allows people to express unacceptable feelings or ideas by consciously epressing their exact opposite
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REACTION FORMATION
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a defense mechanism that diverts people's sexual or aggressive urges toward objects that are more acceptable than those that actually stimulate their feelings
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DISPLACMENT
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a powerful defense mechanism in which people perceive their own aggressive or sexual urges not in themselves but in others
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PROJECTION
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a defense mechanism in which people faced with intense anxiety psychologically retreat to a more infantile developmental stage at which some psychic energy remains fixated
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REGRESSION
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a diverse group of theories descended from the work of sigmund freud that assert that behavior is controlled by unconscious forces
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PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE
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in jung's personality theory, the part of the unconscious mind containing inherited memories shared by all human beings
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COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
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in Jung's personality theory, inherited images that are passed down from our prehistoric ancestors and that reveal themselves as universal symbols in dreams, religion and art
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ARCHETYPES
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a person who is preoccupied with his or her inner world and tends to be hesitant and cautious when interacting with people
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INTROVERT
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a person who is focused on the external world and tends to be confident and socially outgoing
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EXTRAVERT
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an attitude of complete acceptncec toward another person regardless of what she or he has said or done; based on the belief in that person's essential goodness
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UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD
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an attitude of acceptance toward another person only when she or he meets your standsards
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CONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD
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a fleeting but intense moment when a personal feels happy, absorbed and extremely capable
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PEAK EXPERIENCE
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a descriptive approach to personality that identifies stable characteristics that people display over time and across situations
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TRAIT PERSPECTIVE
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a relatively stable tendency to behave in a particular way across a variety of situations
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TRAIT
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a trait theory asserting that personality consists of five traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness)
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FIVE-FACTOR MODEL
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O - OPENNESS
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rich fantasy, rich emotional life, action-oriented, novel ideas, eccentric, idosyncractic
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C-CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
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competent, orderly, duiful, self-disciplined, deliberate, achievement-oriented
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E-EXTRAVERSOIN
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outgoing, positive emotions, assertive, full of energy, excitement seeking, warm
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A-AGREEABLENESS
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trusting, straightforward, compliant, ,modest, tender-minded, altruistic
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N-NEUOTICISM
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anxious, self-conscious, depressed, hostile, impulsive, vunerable
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the viewpoint that our behavior is strongly influenced by the situation rather than by personality traits
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SITUATIONISM
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the study of the combined effects of both the situation and the person on human behavior
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INTERACTIONISM
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a psychological perspective that examines how people interpret, analyze, remember and use information about themselves, others, social interactions and relationships
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SOCIAL-COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
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the social-cognitive belief that personality emerges from an ongoin mutual interaction among people's cognitions, their actions and their environment
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RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM
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a person's belief about his or her ability to perform behaviors that should bring about a desired outcome
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SELF=EFFICACY
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the degree to which we expect that outcomes in our lives depend on our own actions and personal characteristics versus the actions of uncontrollable environmental forces
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LOCUS OF CONTROL
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the tendency to bolster and defend self-esteem by taking credit for positive events while denying blame for negative events
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SELF-SERVING BIAS
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a psychological test that asks people to respond to ambiguous stimuli or situations in ways that will reveal their unconscious motives and desires.
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PROJECTIVE TEST
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a projective personality test in which people are shown 10 symmetrical inikblots and asked what easch might be depicting
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RORSCHARCH INKBLOT TEST
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a pesonality test that acts direct, unambiguous questions about a persons thoughts, feelings and behavior
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OBJECTIVE TEST
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an objective personality test consisting of true-false items that measure various personality dimensions and clinical conditions such as depression
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MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY (MMPI)
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a personality trait involving the tendency to use cues from other people's self-presentations in controlling one's own self-presentations
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SELF-MONITORING
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in the movie how did freuid talk about his pschoanalytic thought?
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D) FACT
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who was the politician brought up in discussion
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WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
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