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22 Cards in this Set
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What is Personality?
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Unique way each individual thinks, acts, and feels throughout life. |
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Unconscious Mind
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Part of the mind that remains hidden at all times surfacing only in dreams and in some behavior
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Id
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Most primitive part of personality. Completely unconscious, pleasure-seeking, amoral part of the personality that exists at birth. |
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Ego
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Mostly conscious. Far more rational, logical, and cunning than the id |
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Superego |
Contains the conscience. Moral center of personality |
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Defense Mechanisms
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Ways of dealing with anxiety through unconsciously distorting ones perception of reality |
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Oral Stage
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0-18 months. Erogenous zone is the mouth. Weaning that occurs too soon or too late can result in an orally fixated adult personality (over eating, drinking too much, chain smoking, talking too much, nail biting, etc.)
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Anal Stage
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18-36 months. Erogenous zone is the anus. Toilet training not done correctly can result in anal expulsive personalities or anal retentive personalities |
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Phallic Stage
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3-6 years. Erogenous zone is the genitals. Sexual curiosity is awakened. Children fall in love with the parent of the opposite sex and dislike the parent of the same sex. |
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Latency Stage
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6 years-puberty. Hidden sexual feelings. Grow and develop intellectually, physically, and socially. Boys only play with boys and girls only play with girls |
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Genital Stage
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Puberty and adulthood. Sexual Reawakening. Focus of sexuality becomes other teenagers instead of the parents. |
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Alfred Adler's theory of inferiority
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Oldest child feels inferior becomes over achiever. Middle child feels superior becomes competitive. Youngest child feels inferior becomes rebellious. Theory of compensation. |
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Theory of Personal and Collective Unconscious
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Collective: Folktales, myths, ancient fears |
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Reciprocal Determinism
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Environment: actual surroundings Behavior: Other People Personal/Cognitive Factors: Beliefs, Expectancies, Personal Dispositions |
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Unconditional Positive Regard
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Love, affection, and respect with no strings attached |
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OCEAN
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Conscientiousness: Organization and motivation Extraversion: Extraverts and Introverts. Agreeableness: Basic Emotional Style of a person Neuroticism: Emotional stability or instability |
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Collectivistic Cultures
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People are from birth deeply tied into very strong in-groups |
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Individualistic Cultures
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Loose ties between individuals. People tend to look after themselves and their immediate families only. |
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Projective Tests |
Mostly inaccurate subjective tests. Low reliability and low vaidity. Used as a starting point for digging deeper into the clients anxieties and concerns.
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Rorschach Inkblot test
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Clients are asked to say what they see in each inkblot |
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TAT
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Thematic Apperception Test. Client is asked to tell a story about the person or people in a black and white picture set up to seem ambiguous |
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MMPI
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Tests for abnormal behavior and thinking patterns in personality |
