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personality
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is often defined as an organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and behaviors unique to each individual.
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self concept
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your perceptions, positive or negative, of your unique attributes and traits as a person.
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self esteem
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your overall evaluation of your worth as a person, high or low, based on all the positive and negative self-perceptions that make up your self-concept.
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__________ is about "what I am," whereas __________concerns "how good I am"
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Self Concept, Self Esteem
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identity
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an overall sense of who they are, where they are heading, and where they fit into society.
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dispositional traits
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relatively enduring dimensions or qualities of personality along which people differ
(for example: extraversion, aloofness |
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characteristic adaptations
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more situation-specific and changeable ways in which people adapt to their roles and environments, including motives, goals, plans, schemas, self-conceptions, stage-specific concerns, and coping mechanisms.
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narrative identities
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unique and integrative "life stories" that we construct about our pasts and futures to give ourselves an identity and our lives meaning
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What are the three major theoretical perspectives?
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1. psychoanalytic theory
2. trait theory 3. social learning theory |
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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Psychoanalytic theorists generally use in-depth interviews, dream analysis, and similar techniques to get below the surface of the person and her behavior and to understand the inner dynamics of personality.
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trait theory
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according to trait theorists, personality is a set of trait dimensions or continua along which people can differ (for example, sociable-unsociable, responsible-irresponsible).
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The Big 5
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5 major dimensions used to characterize people's personality
openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism |
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Openness to experience
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curiosity and interest in variety vs. preference for sameness
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Conscientiousness
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Discipline and organization vs. lack of seriousness
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Extraversion
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Sociability and outgoingness vs. introversion
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Agreeableness
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Compliance and cooperativeness vs. suspiciousness
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Neuroticism
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Emotional instability vs. stability
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Social Learning Theory
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emphasize that people change if their environments change
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The capacity to differentiate self from world becomes even more apparent in the first ____ or ____ months of life as infants discover that they can cause things to happen.
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2 or 3
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Over the first ___ months of life, then, infants discover properties of their physical selves, distinguish between the self and the rest of the world, and appreciate that they can act upon other people and objects
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6
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