• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/34

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

34 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
  • 3rd side (hint)

Ego

Decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle.

Superego

Moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong.

Personality

Individuals unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits.

Personality trait

Duarble dispositioncto behave in a particular way in a variety of situations.

Id

Primitive, instictive component of personality that operates according to pleasure principle.

Primitive

Conscious

According to Frued, whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time.

Particular point in time

Preconscious

Accroding to Freud, material just beneath the surface of awareness thst can be easily retreived.

Material easily retrieved

Defense mechanism

Largely unconscious reaction that protects a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt.

Unpleasant emotions

Opedial Complex

Stage whereby children erotically desire the opposite-sex parent and have hostility toward the same-sex parent.

Desire/opposite-sex parent

Archtype

Emotionally charged image and thought form that had universal meaning.

Universal meaning

Behaviorism

Theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study observable actions.

Observable actions

Classical conditioning

Learning in which a neutral stimulus can evoke a response originally evoked by another stimulus.

Originally evoked

Unconditioned stimulus (US)

Event that evokes an instinctual response without previous conditioning.

Without previous conditioning

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

Previously nuetral event that has acquired the capacity to evoke a response through learning.

Nuetral event, evoke response, learning

Conditioned Response (CR)

Learned reaction to a learned stimulus that occurs because of previous learning.

Learned stimulus

Extinction

Gradual weaking and disapperance of a conditioned response tendency.

Weaking and disapperance

Operant Conditiong

Form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their responses.

Form of learning, responses controlled

Positive Reinforcement

Strengthing of a responde because it is follwed by the arrival of a pleasant stimulus.

Arrival of pleasent stimulus

Negative Reinforcement

Strengthing of a response because it is followed by the removal of an unpleasant stimulus.

Removal of an unpleasant stimulus

Punishment

Weakening of a response because it is followed by the arrival of an unpleasant stimulus.

Weaking of a response

Observational Learning

Knowledge acquistion that occurs when an organisms' responding is influenced by the examination of others.

Knowledge from examination of others

Self-efficacy

One's belief about one's ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes.

One's belief and ability

Humanism

Theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of people, especially free will and personal growth potential.

Personal growth potential

Hierachy of needs

Systematic arrangement of motivators, according to priority, in which basic levels must be met first.

Systematic arrangement of basic needs

Individualism

Practice of putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining identity in terms of personal attributes.

Putting personal goams ahead of group goals

Reliability

Measurement consistency of a test

Consistency

Vailidity

Ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure.

Designed to measure

Collectivism

Involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the group's to which one belongs.

Putting group goals ahead of personal goals

Collective unconscious

Storehouse of latent memories inherited from people's ancestral past that is shared with the human race.

Ancestral past

Archtype

Emotionally charged image and thought form that had universal meaning.

Universal meaning

Unconscious

Accoridng to Freud, thought below the surface of awareness but that nonethless exerts great influence.

Below the surface

Collective unconscious

Storehouse of latent memories inherited from people's ancestral past that is shared with the human race.

Ancestral past

Unconditioned Response (UR)

Unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous influence.

Unconditioned stimulus

Oedipal Complex

Stage whereby children erotically desire the opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent.

Desire opposite sex