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15 Cards in this Set
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Personality |
A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way and individual adapts to the world. |
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Psychodynamic perspective |
Theoretical views emphasizing that personality is primarily unconscious. |
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Humanistic perspectives |
Theoretical views stressing a person's capacity for personal growth and positive human qualities. |
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Trait theories |
Theoretical views stressing that personality consists of broad enduring dispositions that tend to lead to characteristic responses. |
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Big five factors of personality |
The five broad traits that are thought to describe the main dimensions of personality: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. |
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Subjective well-being |
A person's assessment of his or her own level of positive affect relative to negative effect and the individuals evaluation of his or her life in general. |
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Personal logical and life story perspectives |
Theoretical views stressing that the way to understand the person is to focus on his or her history and life story. |
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Social cognitive perspectives |
Theoretical views emphasizing conscious awareness beliefs expectations and goals. |
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Stages of psychosexual development |
1) oral 2) anal 3) phallic 4) latency 5) genital |
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Oral psychosexual stage |
Occurs from 0 to 18 months the infant's pleasure Center is in the mouth chewing sucking and biting are the chief sources of pleasure that reduce tension in the infant. |
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Anal psychosexual stage |
Occurs during 18 to 36 months old during a time when most children are experiencing toilet training. |
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Oedipus Complex |
According to Freud a boy's intense desire to replace his father and enjoy the affections of his mother. |
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Phallic stage of psychosexual development |
Occurs from 3 to 6 years old and triggers the Oedipus Complex |
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Latency period of psychosexual development |
Occurs from 6 years old to puberty according to Sigmund Freud this phase is not as a developmental stage but rather a kind of psychic time out. |
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Genital stage of psychosexual development |
Occurs from adolescence to adulthood: According to Freud, the genital stage is a time of sexual Reawakening a point when the source of sexual pleasure shifts to someone outside the family |
