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What is Personality?
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The unique pattern of enduring thoughts, feelings, actions that characterize a person.
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Four main approaches to personality?
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Psychodynamic, Trait, Social-Cognitive and Humanistic
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A physician in Vienna 1890's,treating "neurotic" disorders,agreed with previous thinkers that people often did and said things that they did not consciously realize
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Sigmund Freud
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What is ID?
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animal instincts, present at birth
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Ego?
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job is to deal with life's limitations
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Superego?
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internalized moral ideas
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Th idea that individual, inherited predispositions to certain disorders combine with life experiences to produce mental disorders is called?
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diathesis-stress model
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An approach to explaining mental disorder that emphasizes the role of factors such as gender and age
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Sociocultural model
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What catagory of disorders is mainly concerned with debilitating changes in peoples's emotions?
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Mood disorder
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______is/are an example of a psoitive symptom of schizophrena,while_____ is/are an example of a negative symptom of schizophrena?
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delusions; social withdrawal
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In what setting can the term "insanity" appropiately be used?
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Within the context of the legal system
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a method of psychotherapy that seeks to help clients gain insight into, and work through, unconscious thoughts and emotions presumed to psychological problems
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psychoanalysis
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the treatment of psychological disorders through psychological methods, such as analyzing problems, talking about possible situations and encouraging more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
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Psychotherapy
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Freud saw the actions of the __as being driven by the ___principle
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id; pleasure
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everyone uses to some extent or other to protect themselves from anxiety
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defense mechanism
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all people can be described as having their own amounts of the same set of traits, personality is the set of stable characteristics that people show over time and in different contexts
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Trait approach
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The Big Five Factor of ____ __refers to how much negative emotion a person tends to experience,while ____ refers to how much as person likes to be around other people
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neuroticism; extraversion
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What two theorists are most closely associated with humanisitc approach in personality?
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Rogers and Maslow
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What peronality test involves showing a person an inkblot and asking fot their judgement of what it looks like?
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Rorschach
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While _____ personality test ask clear questions whose intention can often be discerned by the test-taker, ______ personality test are designed to mask their true purpose to the test-taker
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objective/projective
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