Psychology Test 5

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Personality

Back 1

The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave.

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Personality Trait

Back 2

A consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving.

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Unconscious Mind

Back 3

Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

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Id

Back 4

Personality driven by biological needs

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Ego

Back 5

Personality driven by reality

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Superego

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Personality driven by morality

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Psychological Defense Mechanisms

Back 7

Unconscious distortions of a person's perception of reality that reduces stress and anxiety.

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Repression

Back 8

Pushing distressing or conflicting events out of conscious memory.

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Rationalization

Back 9

Making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior.

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Projection

Back 10

Placing one's own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts belonged to them and not to oneself.

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Reaction Formation

Back 11

Behaving in a opposite way of how one actually feels.

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Displacement

Back 12

Taking out expressions unfairly onto someone else who is a substitute target.

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Regression

Back 13

Falling back on childlike patterns as a way of coping with stressful situations.

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Identification

Back 14

Trying to become like someone else to deal with one's own anxiety (solo or group)

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Sublimation

Back 15

Turning socially unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behavior.

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Psychosexual Stages

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Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of a child.

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Fixation

Back 17

Disorder in which something becomes an unresolved unconscious conflict from childhood.

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Oedipus Complex/Electra Complex

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Child develops an unconscious sexual attraction for the opposite gender parent and hostility towards the same gender parent. (Vice Versa)

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Oral Stage

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First stage occurring in the first year of life in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict.

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Anal Stage

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Second stage occurring from about 1 to 3 years of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is a source of conflict.

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Phallic Stage

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Third stage occurring from 3-6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelings.

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Latency Stage

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Fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways.

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Genital Stage

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Fifth stage occurring from puberty to death in which sexual behavior can no longer be ignored.

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Collective Unconscious

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Second layer of the unconscious, inherited by ancestry (Carl Jung)

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Personal Unconscious

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Jung's name for the unconscious mind described by Sigmund Freud.

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Archetypes

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Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning. (Jung)

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Striving For Superiority

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A universal drive to adapt, improve oneself, and master life's challenges. (Alfred Adler)

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Compensation

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Involves efforts to overcome imagined or real inferiorities by developing one's abilities. (Adler)

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Self-Efficacy

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An individual's perception of how well he/she can perform a specific task. (Adler)

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Humanism

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A theoretical perspective that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth.

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Self-Concept

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The image of one's self that develops from interactions with important and significant people in one's life. (Carl Rogers)

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Incongruence

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The degree of difference between one's self-concept and one's actual experience. (Rogers)

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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Positive love that is given without conditions or strings attached. (perception of love) (Rogers)

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Conditional Positive Regard

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Positive love that is given only when the person is doing what the provider's of positive regard wish. (Rogers)

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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Abraham Maslow's theory that is a systematic arrangements of needs, according to priority, in which basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused

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Self-Actualization

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The need to fulfill one's potential (Maslow)

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Self-Report Inventories

Back 37

Personality tests that ask individuals to answer a series of questions about their characteristic behavior

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The MMPI-2

Back 38

A specific self-report inventory that assesses psychological disorders

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Projective Tests

Back 39

Personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask them to respond with whatever comes to mind

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DSM-5

Back 40

The reference guide used by clinicians to classify psychological disorders

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Social Deviance

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Does society consider this behavior to be socially unacceptable?

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Maladaptive Behavior

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Is anybody harmed from this behavior?

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Personal Distress

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Is that individual comfortable with their behavior

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Statistical Deviance

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Compares the individual behavioral frequency to the average

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Anxiety Disorders

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Disorders in which the main symptom is excessive anxiety and fearfulness

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Phobia

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An irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity

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Panic Disorder

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Disorder in which panic attacks occur more than once and cause ongoing worry

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Disorder in which a person has impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress in general

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Back 49

Disorder in which intruding, reoccurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental act

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Back 50

Disorder resulting from expire to a major stresser

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Etiology

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Identification of all the factors that possibly contribute to an illness (Bio,Genetics,Cognitive,Stress)

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Mood Disorders

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Disorder in which mode is severely disturbed

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause or is too severe for current circumstances

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Bipolar Disorder

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Shifts in mood that may range from normal to manic with or without periods of depression

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Manic

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Having the quality of excessive excitement, energy, and irritability

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Schizophrenia

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Severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish fantasy and reality

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Delusions

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False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness

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Hallucinations

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False sensory perceptions, such as hearing or seeing things

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Positive Symptoms

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Symptoms of schizophrenia that are excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior (Too much)

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Negative Symptoms

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Symptoms of schizophrenia that are less than normal behavior or an absence of normal behavior (Socially low)

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Attributional Style Theory

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An attempt to answer why people develop major depression and why people do not.

(External/Internal) (Stable/Unstable) (Global/Specific)