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| the sum of the ways in which we describe ourselves: past, present and future |
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| an individual component of our self-concept related to the groups in which we belong |
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| the way our identities are organized, the situation and importance of the identity to us dictates which identity holds the most importance at a given moment |
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maintains that each of us has three selves
- actual self - the way we see ourselves as we are currently
- ideal self - the person we would like to be
- ought self - our representation of the way others think we should
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| describes our evaluation of ourselves; will be higher when our three selves are closer to one another |
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our belief in our ability to succeed |
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| a decrease in self-efficacy to the point where an individual thinks they can no long effect change in their situation |
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| Freud's stages of psychosexual development |
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- stage name (time) - erogenous zone/description
- oral stage (0-1) - mouthÂ
- anal stage (1-3) - anus
- phallic or Oedipal stage (3-5) - child envies same sex parent's relationship with other parent and wants to eliminate same sex parent; guilty feelings leads to identifying with same sex parent
- latency (until puberty) - libido is sublimated
- genital stage (begins at puberty) - if other stages were successful normal hetero relationships result
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| Erikson's Stages of psychosocial development |
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| Kholberg's stages of moral development |
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2 and 3 should read self-interest and conformity, respectively
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| zone of proximal development |
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| refers to those skills and abilites that have not yet fully developed but are in the process of development |
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| the group to which we are comparing ourselves when evaluating our self-concept |
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| psychoanalytic personality perspective |
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| view personality as resulting from unconscious urges and desires |
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| What are the 3 major entities in Freud's personality theory? |
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- id - basic, primal, inborn urges to survive and reproduce
- superego - idealist and perfectionist
- ego - mediator between the two and the conscious mind
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| unconsciously removing an idea or feeling from consciousness |
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| consciously removing an idea or feeling from consciousness |
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| returning to an earlier stage of development |
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| an unacceptable impulse is transformed into its opposite |
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| attribution of wishes, desires, thoughts or emotions to someone else |
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| justification of attitudes, beliefs or behaviors |
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| changing the target of an emtion while the feelings remain the same |
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| channeling of an unacceptable impulse in a socially acceptable direction |
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| Jung's collective unconscious |
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| a residue of the experiences of our early ancestors whose building blocks are images of common experiences |
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| images of common experiences such as masculinity or personality, found in Jung's personality theory |
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| emphasizes the internal feelings of the healthy individuals as they strive toward happiness and self-realization |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| a therapeutic technique by which the therapist accepts the client completely and expresses empathy in order to promote a positive therapeutic environment |
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| believe that personality can be described as a number of identifiable traits that carry characteristics behaviors |
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| What were the three major traits identified by the Eysencks? |
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- psychoticism - noncomformity
- extraversion - tolerance for social interaction and stimulation
- neuroticism - arousal in stressful situations
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| What are the three basic types of traits as identified by Allport? |
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- Cardinal traits - traits around which a person organizes his or her life; not everyone has one
- Central traits - represent major characteristics of the personality
- secondary traits - more personal characteristics and limite in occurrence
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