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Ego |
Decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle. |
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Superego |
Moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong. |
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Personality |
Individuals unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits. |
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Personality trait |
Duarble dispositioncto behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. |
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Id |
Primitive, instictive component of personality that operates according to pleasure principle. |
Primitive |
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Conscious |
According to Frued, whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time. |
Particular point in time |
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Preconscious |
Accroding to Freud, material just beneath the surface of awareness thst can be easily retreived. |
Material easily retrieved |
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Defense mechanism |
Largely unconscious reaction that protects a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt. |
Unpleasant emotions |
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Opedial Complex |
Stage whereby children erotically desire the opposite-sex parent and have hostility toward the same-sex parent. |
Desire/opposite-sex parent |
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Archtype |
Emotionally charged image and thought form that had universal meaning. |
Universal meaning |
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Behaviorism |
Theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study observable actions. |
Observable actions |
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Classical conditioning |
Learning in which a neutral stimulus can evoke a response originally evoked by another stimulus. |
Originally evoked |
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Unconditioned stimulus (US) |
Event that evokes an instinctual response without previous conditioning. |
Without previous conditioning |
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS) |
Previously nuetral event that has acquired the capacity to evoke a response through learning. |
Nuetral event, evoke response, learning |
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Conditioned Response (CR) |
Learned reaction to a learned stimulus that occurs because of previous learning. |
Learned stimulus |
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Extinction |
Gradual weaking and disapperance of a conditioned response tendency. |
Weaking and disapperance |
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Operant Conditiong |
Form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their responses. |
Form of learning, responses controlled |
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Positive Reinforcement |
Strengthing of a responde because it is follwed by the arrival of a pleasant stimulus. |
Arrival of pleasent stimulus |
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Negative Reinforcement |
Strengthing of a response because it is followed by the removal of an unpleasant stimulus. |
Removal of an unpleasant stimulus |
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Punishment |
Weakening of a response because it is followed by the arrival of an unpleasant stimulus. |
Weaking of a response |
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Observational Learning |
Knowledge acquistion that occurs when an organisms' responding is influenced by the examination of others. |
Knowledge from examination of others |
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Self-efficacy |
One's belief about one's ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes. |
One's belief and ability |
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Humanism |
Theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of people, especially free will and personal growth potential. |
Personal growth potential |
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Hierachy of needs |
Systematic arrangement of motivators, according to priority, in which basic levels must be met first. |
Systematic arrangement of basic needs |
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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 |
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Reliability |
Measurement consistency of a test |
Consistency |
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Vailidity |
Ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure. |
Designed to measure |
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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 |
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Collective unconscious |
Storehouse of latent memories inherited from people's ancestral past that is shared with the human race. |
Ancestral past |
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Archtype |
Emotionally charged image and thought form that had universal meaning. |
Universal meaning |
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Unconscious |
Accoridng to Freud, thought below the surface of awareness but that nonethless exerts great influence. |
Below the surface |
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Collective unconscious |
Storehouse of latent memories inherited from people's ancestral past that is shared with the human race. |
Ancestral past |
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Unconditioned Response (UR) |
Unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous influence. |
Unconditioned stimulus |
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Oedipal Complex |
Stage whereby children erotically desire the opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent. |
Desire opposite sex |