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| An individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling. |
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| A series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describes their own behavior or mental state. |
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| Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) |
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| A well-researched, clinical questionnaire used to asses personality and psychological problems. |
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| A standard of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual's personality. |
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| A projective test in which individual interpretations of the meaning of a set of unstructured inkblots are analyzed to identify a respondent's inner feelings and interpret his or her personality structure. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| A projective test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world though the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people. |
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| A relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way. |
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| The traits of the five-factor model; conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion. |
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| An approach that regards personality as formed by needs, strivings, and desires, largely operating outside awareness- motives that can also produce emotional disorders. |
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| An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires, and the person's inner struggle to control these forces. |
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| The part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives. |
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| The psychic force that motivates the tendency to seek immediate gratification of any impulse. |
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| The component of personality, developed through contact with the external world, that enables us to deal with life's practical demands. |
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| The regulating mechanism that enables the individual to delay gratifying immediate needs and function effectively in the real world. |
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| The mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercise their authority. |
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| Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves suppyling a reasonable-sounding explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal (mostly from oneself) one's underlying motives or feelings. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of their opposite. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves attributing one's own threatening feelings, motives or impulses to another person or group. |
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| A defense mechanism in which the ego deals with internal conflict and perceived threat by reverting to an immature behavior or earlier stage of development. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves shifting unacceptable wishes to drives to a neutral or less-threatening alternative. |
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| A defense mechanism that helps deal with the feelings of threat and anxiety by enabling us unconsciously to take on the characteristics of another person who seems more powerful or better able to cope. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves channeling unacceptable sexual or aggressive drives into socially acceptable and culturally enhancing activities. |
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| Distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experience sexual plesures from specific body areas and caregivers redirect or interfere with those pleasures. |
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| A phenomenon in which a person's pleasure-seeking drives become psychologically stuck, or arrested, at a particular psychosexual stage. |
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| The first psychosexual stage, in which experience centers on the pleasures and frustrations associated with the mouth, sucking, and being fed. |
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| The second psychosexual stage, which is dominated by the pleasures and frustrations associated with the anus, retention and expulsion of feces and urine, and toilet training. |
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| The third psychosexual stage, during which experience is dominated by the pleasure, conflict, and frustration associated with the phallic-genital region as well as powerful incestuous feelings of love, hate, jealousy, and conflict. |
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| A developmental experience in which a child's conflicting feelings toward the opposite-sex parent is (usually) resolved by identifying with the same-sex parent. |
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| The fourth psychosexual stage, in which the primary focus is on the further development of intellectual, creative, interpersonal, and athletic skills. |
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| The final psychosexual stage, a time for the coming together of the mature adult personality with the capacity to love, work, and relate to other in a mutually satisfying and reciprocal manner. |
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| Self-Actualizing Tendency |
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| The human motive toward realizing our inner potential. |
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| Unconditional Positive Regard |
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| An attitude of nonjudgemental acceptance toward another person. |
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| A school of thought that regards personality as governed by an individual's ongoing choices and decisions in the context of the realities of life and death. |
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| Social Cognitive Approach |
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| An approach that views personality in terms of how the person thinks about the situations encountered in daily life and behaves in response to them. |
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| Person-Situation Controversy |
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| The question of whether behavior is causes more by personality or by situational factors. |
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| Dimensions people use in making sense of their experiences. |
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| A person's assumptions about the likely consequences of a future behavior. |
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| A person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment. |
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| A person's explicit knowledge of his or her own behaviors, traits, and other personal characteristics. |
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| The tendency to seek evidence to confirm the self-concept. |
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| The extent to which an individual like, values, and the accepts the self. |
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| People's tendency to take credit for their successes but downplay responsibility for their failures. |
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| A trait that reflects a grandiose view of the self combined with a tendency to seek admiration from and exploit others. |
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