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Personality |
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. |
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Psychodynamic theories |
View personality with a focus on unconscious and the importance of childhood. |
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Free Association |
In Psychoanalysis a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embrassing |
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Psychoanalysis |
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; The techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. |
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Unconscious |
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologist, information processing |
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Id |
A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. |
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Ego |
The largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. |
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Superego |
The part of personality that according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspiration. |
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Psychosexual Stages |
The childhood stages of development during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones |
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Oral |
(0-18 Months) Pleasure centers on the mouth |
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Anal |
(18-36 Months) Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination |
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Phallic |
(3-6 Years) Pleasure Zone is the genitals |
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Latency |
(6 to Puberty) A phase of dormant sexual feeling. |
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Genital |
(Puberty on) Maturation of sexual interests. |
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Oedipus Complex |
According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father. |
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Identification |
The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos. |
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Fixation |
According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. |
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Defense Mechanisms |
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. |
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Repression |
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. |
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Collective Unconscious |
Carl Jung's concept of a shard inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history. |
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Projective Test |
A personality test such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics. |
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Terror-Management Theory |
A theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death. |
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Humanistic Theories |
View Personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth. |
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Self-actualization |
According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fufill |
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Unconditional Positive Regard |
According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance towards another person. |
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Self-Concept |
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?" |
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Trait |
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. |
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Personality Inventory |
A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits. |
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Empirically Derived Test |
A test developed by testing a pool of items then selection those that discriminate between groups. |
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Personal Control |
The extent to which we perceive control over our environment |
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External Locus of Control |
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate. |
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Internal Locus of Control |
The perception that you control your own fate. |
