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31 Cards in this Set
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Personality
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The psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations and at different times
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Psychoanalysis
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Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders. The term is often used to refer to psychoanalytic theory
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Psychoanalytic theory
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Freud's theory of personality
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Unconscious
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Psychic domain of which the individual is not aware, but which is the storehouse of repressed impulses, drives, and conflicts that are unavailable to consciousness
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Libido
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The Freudian concept of psychic energy that drives individuals to experience sensual pleasure
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Id
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Primitive, unconscious portion of personality, houses most basic drives and stores repressed memories.
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Superego
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The mind's storehouse of values
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Ego
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Conscious, rational part of personality, charged with keeping peace between superego and id
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Oedipus complex
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a largely unconscious process
boys displace an erotic attraction toward their mother and then to females of their own age boys identify with their fathers |
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Identification
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The mental process by which an individual tries to become like another person
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Fixation
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Occurs when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage
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Ego defense mechanisms
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Largely unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety
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Repression
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An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory
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Projective tests
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Personality assessment instruments
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Rorschach inkblot technique
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A projective test requiring subjects to describe what they see in a series of inkblots
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
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A projective test requiring subjects to make up stories that explain ambiguous pictures
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Pyschic determinism
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Freud's assumption that all our mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconscious traumas
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Introversion
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The Jungian dimension that focuses on inner experience - one's own thoughts and feelings - making the introvert less outgoing and sociable than the extrovert
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Extraversion
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The Jungian personality dimension involving turning one's attention outward
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Basic anxiety
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An emotion
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Self-actualizing personalities
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Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities
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Fully functioning person
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Carl Roger's term for a healthy
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Phenomenal field
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Our psychological reality
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Observational learning
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The process of learning new responses y watching others' behavior
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Sigmund Freud
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(1856-1939) Eldest of four children in a Jewish family in Vienna
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Temperament
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The basic and pervasive personality dispositions that are apparent in early childhood and that establish the tempo and mood of the individual's behaviors
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Traits
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Stable personality characteristics that are presumed to exist within the individual and guide his or her thoughts and actions under various conditions
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MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Indventory)
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A widely used personality assessment instrument that gives scores of ten important clinical traits.
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Reliability
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An attribute of a psychological test that gives consistent results
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Validity
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An attribute of a psychological test that actually measures what it is being used to measure
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Type
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Refers to especially important dimensions or clusters of traits that are not only central to a person's personality but are found with essentially the same pattern in many people
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