Psyc. Ch 12

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Personality

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an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Free Association

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a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes no matter how trival or embarrassing

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Psychoanalysis

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theory of personality that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconcious motives and conflicts

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Physoanalysis is who's theory?

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Freuds

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What is physoanalysis used for?

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treating physological disorders by seeking to expose and interpet unconcious intentions

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Unconcious

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a reservoir of thoughts, feelings, and memories; informations processing of which we are unaware

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Id

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contains a reservoir of unconcious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

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Ego

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part of the personality mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality.

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What operates on the reality princple satisfying the id's desires that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain

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Ego

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Superego

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that part of personallity that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations

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Psycosexual Stages

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the childhood stages of developmentduring which the pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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Oedipus Complex

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a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Identifcation

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the process by which the children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos

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Fixation

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a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psycosexual stage; where conflicts were unresolved

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Defense Mechanisms

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the ego's protective method of reducing reality by inconciously distorting reality

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Repression

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the basic defence mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from conciousness

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Regression

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defence mechanism in which an indivdual is faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psycosexual stage where some psycic energy remains

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Reaction Formation

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psycoanalitic defence mechanism by which the ego unconciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.

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Projection

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psycoanalitical defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing to others

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Rationalization

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defense Mechanism that offers self justifying explanations in place of the real more threatening unconcious reasons for ones actions

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Displacment

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Psycoanalitical defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatning object or person, as when redirecting anger towards a safer outlet

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Projective Test

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a personality test that provieds ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projections of ones inner dynamics

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Name some examples of Projective tests

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Rorschach or ink blot test

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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the most widely used projective test; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpertations of the blots

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Collective Unconscious

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Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history

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Self Actualization

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the ultimate psycological need that arises after basic physical and psycological needs are met and self esteem is achieved; the motivation is to fullfil ones potential

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Unconditional Positive Reguard

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an attitude of total acceptance to another person

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Abraham Maslow came up with what theory?

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Self Actualization

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Carl Rogers came up with what theory?

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Unconditional Positive Reguard

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Self Concept

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all our thoughts and feelings about our selves in answer to the question "who am I"

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Trait

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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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Personality Inventory

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a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors

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How is personality inventory used?

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to assess selected personality traits

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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Originally used to identify emotional disorders and is now used for many other screening purposes

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What is the most clinically used of all hersonality tests?

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MMPI

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Empirically Derived Test

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a test developed by testing a pool of items and them selecting thoes that discriminate between groups

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Social Cognitive Perspective

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views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context

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Reciprocal Deterimism

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the interacting influences between personality and enviorment

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Personal Control

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our sense of controling our enviorment rather than feeling helpless

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External Locus Control

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the perception that chance or outside forces beyond ones personal controls determines ones fate

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Learned Helplessness

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the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to aviod repeated adverse events

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Spotlight Effect

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overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance performance and blunders (as if we presume the spotlight shines on us

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Self Esteem

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ones feelings of high or low self worth

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Self Serving Bias

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a readiness to precieve oneself favorably

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Individualism

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Giving priority to ones own goals over group goals and defining ones indentity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

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Collectivism

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giving priority to the goals of ones group and defining ones identity accordingly