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18 Cards in this Set
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ego
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whatever the ID and superego come to compromise on
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superego
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the social norms and experience (the angel on your shoulder) telling you things that are socially acceptable: suppresses the ID things
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Repression
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keeping anxiety arousing wishes from consciousness (root of all defense mechanisms=most important)
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Regression
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allows us to retreat to an earlier stage of development (sucking your thumb when you get nervous)
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Projection
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attributes threatening impulses to others (boyfriend accusing girlfriend of cheating when he is actually cheating)
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Rationalization
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generate self-justifying explanations
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Displacement
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diverts sexual or aggressive impulses (child punished for acting out so hit the dog rather than mother, more socially acceptable)
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Denial
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rejecting events as a fact of denying seriousness (mother's denying child's bad habits)
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projective tests
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designed to asses the unconscious processes
ex. free association, Thematic Apperception test, the Rorschach |
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humanistic perspective
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focuses on good, present, and future
Abraham Maslow said we have basic needs like food and shelter before we move on to things like love and acceptance: everyone is born with this |
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trait perspective
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says that in personality traits there are innumerable personality traits that individuals have and all individuals have these traits to a certain extent, only certain one stand out at different times; kind of like emotion
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Myers-Brigs Type Indicator
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first test used to try to develop traits: ask question like i consider myself loving, caring or rational. what "type" of person you are
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Hans and Sybil Eysenck
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associated with the dimensional model which is similar to dimensional model of emotion, only with personality.
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Biology(trait measure)
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contributes because extroverts have lower levels of baseline brain activation - they need to seek out more stimulation to find their needs (biology doesn't necessarily mean you are born with it)
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social-cognitive perspective
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emphasis on trait-situation interaction. it includes the reciprocal influences and internal and external locus control
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reciprocal influences
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describes that our personality affects our situations and our situations also affect our personality
ex. different people choose different environments, our personalities shape how we interpret events, our personalities help create situations to which we react |
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internal
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when you blame yourself for everything that goes wrong
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external
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when you blame others for problems happening in your life
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