General Psychology Test 4

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an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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Personality

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View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

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psychodynamic theory

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Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts: the techniques used in treating Psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

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Psychoanlysis

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According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.

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Unconscious

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In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.

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Free Association

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A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.

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ID

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The largely conscious , "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the ID, Super ego, and reality.

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Ego

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The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideal and provides standards for judgement (The conscience) and for future aspirations.

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Superego

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The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the IDs pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

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Psychosexual stages

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according to Freud, a boys sexual feelings for his mother and feelings for jealousy or hatred for his father.

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Oedipus complex

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The process by which, according to freud, children incorporate their parents values into their developing super egos.

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Identification

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according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

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Fixation

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In Psychoanalytic theory , the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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Defense Mechanism

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In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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repression

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Carl Jungs concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history.

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Collective Unconscious

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A personality test, such as the Rorschech, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics.

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Projective test

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A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

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Thematic Apperception Test

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The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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A theory of death related anxiety; explores peoples emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death.

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terror management theory

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View personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.

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Hmanistic theories

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according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved; the motivationto fulfill ones potential

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self-actualization

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according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.

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Unconditional positive regard

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?''

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self concept

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A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.

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trait

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a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits

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personality inventory

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The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests.

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory (MMPI)

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A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.

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empirically derived tests

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits (including their thinking) and their social context

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social cognitive perspective

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the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.

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reciprocal determination

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in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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Self

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).

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Spotlight effect

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ones feelings of high or low self-worth.

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Self esteem

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ones sense of competence and effectiveness

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Self-efficacy

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excessive self love and self absorption.

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narcissism

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a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.

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psychological disorder

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The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured.

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medical model

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The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

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epigenetics

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A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders

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DSM-5

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psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety, or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.

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Anxiety disorders

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An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.

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generalized anxiety disorder

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an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minute long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations. often followed by worry over a possible next attack.

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panic disorder

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An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.

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Phobia

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A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obssessions), actions (compulsions), or both.

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obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

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A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.

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post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement is common.

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Mania

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A disorder in which a person alternates between depression and mania

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Bipolar

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compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes.

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rumination

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a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/ or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression

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schizophrenia

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a false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.

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delusion

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a form of schizophrenia in which symptoms appear in late adolescence or early adulthood.

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Chronic schitzophrenia

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a form of schizophrenia in which symptoms appear at any age. Frequently occurring in response to a traumatic event.

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acute schizophrenia

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controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.

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dissociative dissorder.

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a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.

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Dissociative identity dissorder (DID)

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inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social patterns

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personality disorders

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A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends and family members.

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antisocial personality disorder

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i love?

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