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33 Cards in this Set
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Sigmund Freud |
Sigman Freud says that personality comes from impulse and restraint- EGO, ID, Superego -Forms during psychosexual development -Freud is considered the father of modern psychology One of the first therapists in psychology -Freud’s students are called Neofreudians |
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ID |
the part of your personality that is more devious |
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Repression: |
-banishing anxiety from consciousness |
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Regression: |
-Retreating to more infantile behavior (ex: whining) |
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Reaction Formation: |
switching unacceptable impulses into the opposite |
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Projection: |
disguising own threatening impulses by attributing to others |
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Rationalization: |
Self-justifying explanations |
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Displacement: |
Discharging pent-up hostile feelings on objects less threatening |
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Sublimation: |
Re-channeling to socially acceptable activities |
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Carl Jung: |
Said that personality is opposing forces -Persona -Shadow -Anima -Animus A balance becomes the "self" |
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Denial: |
Refusing to admit the unpleasant |
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Unconscious |
A level of consciousness at which thoughts wishes, and feelings are not accessible to conscious awareness |
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Types of conscious |
Personal unc. Collective unc. (our ancestor’s unconscious and ours) (reveals archetypes) |
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Jung's Archetypes |
Family Story Animal |
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Alfred Adler |
Believes personality is the overcoming of inferiority complexes; believed birth order played a role; created Birth Order Theories |
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Karen Horney |
Believes that personality is overcoming basic anxiety;The importance of developing secure relationships |
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Abraham Maslow |
Humanistic; Personality is self-actualization and studied healthy and creative ppl |
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Carl Rogers |
Personality is developed with Genuineness Acceptance Empathy -Acceptance of self leads to Unconditional Positive Regard |
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Traits: |
Characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel or act; assessed by self-reported inventories or peer reports These theories were developed by Gorden Allport and he was a neo-FreudianHe said psychoanalysis is focused on hidden motives, just wanted to describe, not explain |
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Meyers-Briggs Theory |
This attempted to sort based on Jung’s personality types using an inventory -Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with 126 questions |
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Eyesenck's Personalities |
Developed Eyesenck based on Greek ideas of the body Personality & Questionnaire 4 cores: Unstable, stable, Introverted and Extroverted |
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Big 5 Personalities |
-developed by Costa & McRae Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism Openness Extroversion |
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MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY |
(MMPI) -Assess abnormal personality traits -weakness: too imperial |
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Social-Cognitive Perspective |
This was created by Albert Bandura; it says that interacting influences of behavior created personality; if two are strong, the other will follow Environment of anger, hostile thinking and hostile behavior |
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View of Psychodynamic Theories |
Psychodynamic theories view each person as a complex system of diverse sources of psychic energy, each of which pushes the person in a somewhat different direction. |
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Conflict- |
The different sources of energy tend to propel the person in conflicting directions and the behavior prompted by these multiple sources of energy usually cannot satisfy all of the conflicting psychic drives at once. |
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Determinism- |
the belief that people’s behavior is ruled by forces over which the people have little or no control |
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Primary-Process Thought- |
a form of thought that is irrational, instinct-driven and unrealistic; ex: the id. |
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Pleasure Principal- |
Pursuing immediate gratification of urges for pleasure, regardless of the external realities |
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Reality Principle- |
Responding to the real world as it is perceived to be |
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Secondary-Process Thought |
rational, based on reality |
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Person-Centered Approach |
This was created by Carl Rogers and it says that personality strongly emphasizes the self and each person’s perception of self |
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Social-Learning Theory of Julia Rotter: |
Internal Locus of Control- People who believe that the causes of behavioral consequences originate within the individual External Locus of Control- Behavioral consequences originate outside the individual |