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63 Cards in this Set
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Striving for Perfection
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Alfred Adler
the motivating force behind our behavior and experience |
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Compensation
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basic motivation
compensate to overcome our our problems |
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individual psychology
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"un-divided psychology"
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style of life
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how you live your life
handle problems and interpersonal relationships |
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fictional finalism
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don't know if there is truly a heaven or hell but we believe that there is
the fiction lies in the future, but it influences our current behavior |
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social interest
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social feeling
social concern sympathy for others or lack there of considering of surrounding social environment |
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inferiority
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psychological or psyiological
we are self- involoved because we are overwhelmed by our inferiority |
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psychological inferiorities
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inferiority complex
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being overwhelemed by feelings of inferiority
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neurosis
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Life-size problem
effects every aspect of your life (shy, submissive, dependant, etc) |
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superiority complex
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covering up your feelings of insecurity by pretending to be superior
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anxiety
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neurotic needs
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our attempt at making life better
coping mechanisms very normal person- major mental health issues |
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parental indifference
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lack of warmth or attention in early childhood
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Basic anxiety
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feelings of helplessness
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self
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core of your being, potential
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despised self
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think you become the bad stuff people say about you
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ideal self
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unrealistic, unattainable
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hierarchy of needs
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pysiological
saftey belonging esteem self-actualization |
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physiological needs
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need for basic stuff(water, vitamins, food, sleep, etc.)
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safety and security needs
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order, structure, limits, safety, security
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love and belonging needs
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friends, family, children, marriage, dating, clubs
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esteem needs
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inner self- esteem
outer: respect for and of others , need for status, confidence, achievement, mastery |
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deficit needs
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if you don't fulfill them you will feel a constant need for them- once you have them you are satisfied
-we seek to balance ourselves out |
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homeostasis
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instinctoid
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self-actualization
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"be all you can be"- realizing your full potential
in touch with yourself |
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being needs
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can never go in defficit
continued to be felt and get stronger have to meet others needs first and then can realize your own potential |
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"self - actualizers"
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no more than 2% of the world
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the actualizing tendancy
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a built in motivation present in every life form to develop it's potential to the fullest extent possible
every creature strives to be the best they can be |
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organismic valuing
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the ability to see good through our senses
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positive regard
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love, affection, nuturing etc.
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positive self-regard
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self- esteem, self- worth, positive self- image, etc.
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conditions of worth
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giving positive regard with conditions
may change the way you are to get positive effect |
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conditional positive regard
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giving positive regard with conditions
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conditions of positive self- regard
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we only like ourselves if we meet other standards(don't live up to your potential, but to what others have said you can live up to)
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incongruity
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gap between real self and ideal self "I should be" out of sync with real self- mor incongruity = more suffering
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real self
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part of being that is founded in the actualizing tendancies(pos. stuff)
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ideal self
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standards of our culture we can't meet but want to
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defenses
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things we use to avoid anxiety
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anxiety
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denial
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block out the threatening situation
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perceptual distortion
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reinterpreting a situation so it appears less threatening
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the fully-functioning person
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openess to experience
existontial living- here& now organismic trusting- we know what's best for us exeriential freedom- recog. freedom & take resp.4 choices creativity |
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neuroticism
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fairly calm - nervous
nervous scale, ppl have really high responsive sympathetic nervous system- may be more neurotis |
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extraversion
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loud, outgoing, like ppl around, less inhibited
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introversion
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shy, quiet, like to be alone, more overwhelmed, more inhibited
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ectomorphs
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slender, tall people, fine features
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mesomorphs
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stockier, muscular
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endomorphs
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pearshaped,chubby,
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cerebrotonics
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intellectual, shy, nervous
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somatonics
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active, energetic, fit
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viscerotonics
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sociable, loves food
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35 factors
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8 strengths contain 35 factors
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5 factors
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extroversion vs. introversion
agreeableness concientious emotional stability vs. neurotiscism culture or openess to experience |
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Barnum effect
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making broad predictions that will fit almost anyone
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Projective tests
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presents subject with ambigous stimuli and asks them to tell a story or describe it - projecting feelings, desires, etc. from our subconcious onto the stimuli
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Rorschach inkblot test
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asks person to describe what they see in a series of 10 inkblots- describe why u gave the response u did- everything about ure response is recorded
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Thematic Apperception Test(TAT)
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given a picture you make up a story about what is going on in it- and what happens after the picutre
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Objective tests
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self report tests- answering pen and paper- asseses personality by asking questions about you- respons with limited amount of answer choices
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Standardized testing
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giving the test to a large number of ppl and pick out the questions that fit- MMPI
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Face Validity
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MMPI
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
550 questions- 10 clinical categories, 4 validity scales, gets rid of lying, cheating, or being carless- diagnostic test |
