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Personality
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A persistent set of mental traits that tend to define a person's label or existence, that change with experience, biological change, and time.
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Trait
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A characteristic of an individual, describing a
habitual way of behaving, thinking, and feeling. |
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Psychodynamic Theories.
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Theories pertaining to why people act the way do stemming from subconscious reasons.
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Psychoanalysis
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A theory of personality and Psychotherapy made by Freud.
It emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts |
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Freud's structure of personality.
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Id- Operates based on animalistic instinct, wants pleasure, rage. The subconscious behavior manifested.
Ego- The go between. Operates with a sense of moral logic and innate desires. Superego- Moral reasoning, whether something is truly right or wrong is decided by this. |
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Defense Mechanisms
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Methods used by the ego to suppress awful thoughts from being made aware of, or preventing unconscious anxiety.
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Types of Defense mechanisms.
They're 5, Repression Denial Displacement Projection Sublimation ;) |
Repression -Threatening thought blocked from the mind.
Projection -Person’ ’s own unacceptable feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else. Denial- Refusal to admit that something unpleasant as to show wellness or invulnerability Sublimation- A form of displacement in which sexual urges are re channeled in to productive, nonsexual activities. Displacement- When people direct their emotions against objects, people or animals, to get rid of the emotion. |
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Defense Mechs. Cont.
Undoing Reaction-Formation Ration. Regression |
Undoing- Unconscious repentance. Making up for bad experience.
Reaction/Formation- Acting in a way that is the opposite of impulsive behavior. Rationalization- Attempting to justify actions with logic to skirt admitting their carnal desires. Regression- When a person reverts to a previous phase of past state of mind. |
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Psychosexual stages
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Oral 0-1- mouth is what makes you happy
Talking, feeding, sucking. Anal 2-3- Learns to respond to the demands of society, Such as bowel and bladder control. Also the anus=happy.. Phallic 3-7- Child learns the difference between girls and boys. Latency 7-11- Becomes more sociable, makes friends, focuses on school, and sexual thoughts are very repressed. Genital (teens)- How to deal with opposite sex/wants to get laid. Scene years. |
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Collective unconscious-
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All the shitt from the unconscious manifested in archetypes and forms of expression.
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Archetypes
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Forms of expression that show the collective unconscious.
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Object-relations school
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School of thought geared towards the importance of a baby's first two years. Also its relationships during this time (mother.)
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Objective tests-
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Questionnaire that asks people to rate themselves.
Ex. I like to party. True or false |
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Big 5 personality traits
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Social cognitive theory
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Recip. Determinism
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Self-efficacy
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Temperaments
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Influence of parents and peers on personality
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Cultural influences on personality
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individualistic and collectivist cultures
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Aggression and honor cultures.
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Humanistic Psychology
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self-actualization
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the fully functioning person
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unconditional positive regard
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conditions of worth
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humanistic psychotherapy
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Positive psychology
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Classification of character strengths
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Life narrative
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