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Personality
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-Pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior.
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Traits
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Contribute to individual differences in behavior, consistency of behavior over time, and stability of behavior across situations. Traits may be unique, common to some group, or shared by the entire species, but the pattern is different for each individual.
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Characteristics
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Unique qualities of an individual that include such attributes as temperment, physique, and intelligence.
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Theory
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Set of related assumptions
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Psychology of Science
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The Empirical study of scientific thought and behavior (including theory construction) of the scientist.
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What makes a theory useful criteria for evaluating a theory?
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Generates research, is falsifiable, organizes known data, guides action (practical), is internally consistant, is simple.
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Dimensions for a concept of humanity
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Determinism vs free choice
Pessimissm vs optimism Causality (events in past) vs teleology (future determines present) Conscious vs unconscious Biological vs social influences on personality Uniqueness vs similarities |
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Reliability
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Consistencey of measurement
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Validity
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Construct validity: Convergent, divergent, discriminant.
Predictive Validity |
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Freud's History
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Born: Czech Republic in 1856
Spent 80 years in Vienna, Austria Eldest of eight Studied medicine; psychiatry; interested in science Studied hysteria with Charcot & Brever (hypnosis treatments) Hysteria studies (1895) Seduction theory replaced with Oedipus Complex in 1897 1900-wrote interpretation of dreams Followers (1900)- Adler, young, others) Nazis drove Freud out of Austria in 1938 Died-London-1939 |
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Unconcious
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Beyond awareness (includes drives, urges, or instincts.)
Known only indirectly Two sources of unconcious processes (repression, phylogenetic endowment) |
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Preconcious
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Not in concious awareness, but can be
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Concious
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Mental life that is directly available, plays a minor role
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Id
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(Neurotic anxiety)
Pleasure principle Primary Process |
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Ego
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(Real Anxiety)
The reality principle Secondary process |
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Superego (moral anxiety)
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Idealistic principle
Conscience Ego-ideal |
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Dynamics of Personality
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Drives
-Libido or sex drive -Aggression/destruction drive |
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Anxiety
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Neurotic Anxiety
Moral anxiety Realistic anxiety |
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Defense Mechanisms
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Repression
Reaction Formation Displacement Fixation Regression Projection Introjection Sublimation |
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Infantic Period
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(Birth-5)
Oral phase Anal phase Phallic phase -Male oedipus complex (castration complex) -Femal oedipus comples (electra; penis envy) |
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Latency Period
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(5-puberty)
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Genital Period
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(Puberty-adulthood)
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Maturity
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After genital period
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Catharsis
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Movement of energy from a source to an object
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