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22 Cards in this Set
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An individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
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Personality
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: A standard series of ambiguous stimuli de4signed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual’s personality.
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Projective Techniques
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A relatively stable disposition to behave in a stable and consistent way.
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Trait
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The traits of the five-factor model: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion.
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Big Five
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An approach that regards personality as formed by the needs, strivings, and desires, largely operating outside of awareness – motives that can also produce emotional disorders.
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Psychodynamic Approach
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: The part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly are sexual and aggressive drives.
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Id
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The psychic force that motivates the tendency to seek immediate gratification of any impulse.
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Pleasure Principle
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The component of personality, developed through contact with the external world, that enable’s us to deal with life’s practical demands.
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Ego
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The regulating mechanism that enables the individual to delay gratifying immediate needs and function effectively in the world.
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Reality Principle
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The mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercise their authority.
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Superego
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Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats of unacceptable impulses.
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Defense Mechanism
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: A school of thought that regards personality as governed by an individual’s ongoing choices and decisions in the context of realities of life and death.
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Existential Approach
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People’s tendency to take credit for their successes but downplay responsibility for their failures.
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Self-serving bias
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A positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity.
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Emotion
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The notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
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Hedonic Principle
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the tendency for a system to take action to keep itself in a particular state.
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Homeostasis
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An internal state generated by departures from physiological optimality.
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Drive
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A motivation to take actions that are not themselves rewarding but that lead to reward.
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Extrinsic Motivation
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A motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding.
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Intrinsic Motivation
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The motivation to solve worthwhile problems.
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Need for Achievement
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A motivation to experience positive outcomes.
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Approach Motivation
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A motivation not to experience negative outcomes.
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Avoidance Motivation
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