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| _____ is an enduring pattern of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral ways of responding to the environment. |
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| Freud believed that psychological problems were ____; in other words, they were caused by multiple unconscious processes. |
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| Freud considered the ____ to be the psyche's conscience. |
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| When a person is unable to successfully navigate the challenges of a specific stage of psychosexual development, thereby not progressing to the next stage, that person is ___. |
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| The ____ is a personality assessment that involves presenting people with pictures and asking them to tell a story about what is happening in the picture. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| ____ is the belief that one is capable of producing a desired outcome. |
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| ____ is a person's assessment of his or her own level of happiness. |
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| _____ is a defense mechanism in which feelings are redirected from one target to another, more acceptable target. |
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| ____ is the field of study that seeks to determine whether personality and behavior have a hereditary basis. |
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| According to Hans Eysenck, the trait of extraversion is related to acitvity in the ____. |
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| Reticular activating system (RAS) |
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| Personality tests that ask people to describe their own traits are known as ____. |
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| Freud believed that little boys experience a(n) _____, a desire to get rid of their fathers so that they can have sex with their mothers. |
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| A generalization about a group that does not take into account differences among member sof that group is called a(n) ____. |
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| Feeling the same way as another, or putting yourself in someone else's shoes, is called ____. |
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| The belief that one's own ethnic group is better than other groups is known as ____. |
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| A person who is told by an experimenter to act a certain way in order to see how study participants will react to him or her is a(n) ____. |
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| Confirming because of a desire to be liked or fit in is called ____. |
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| Normative social influence |
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| _____ is a process that happens in groups when bad decisions are made with no room for dissention. |
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| Love based on strong, caring feelings and a desire to be near one's partner is known as ____. |
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| Romantic, or affectionate |
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| ____ is the feelings of understanding and identifying with another person's feelings. |
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| When a person openly holds racist attitudes, this type of racism is called ____ racism. |
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| When emotions or attitudes spread through members of a group due to observational learning, this is called ____. |
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| Helping another person in order to appear generous, or to ensure reciprocity, is called ____. |
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| A common symptom of schizophrenia, _____, occurs when people believe that random events have personal significance. |
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| Troublesome thoughts that cause a person to engage in ritualistic behaviors are called ____. |
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| ____ may develop when a person is repeatedly exposed to negative events over which he/she has no control. |
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| Constantly focusing on negative thoughts, but doing nothing to change those thoughts is consistent with a ____ coping style. |
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| One possible symptom of schizophrenia is ____, an extended period of immobility. |
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| ____ is a mood disorder that is similar to major depressive disorder, but not quite as severe. |
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| Dysthymia, or Dysthymic disorder |
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| People who periodically consume very large quantities of food, but who do not purge afterward suffere from ____. |
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| The disorder commonly called "multiple personality disorder" is properly called ____. |
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| Dissociative identity disorder |
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| The disorder characterized by repeated violation of others' rights and lack of remorse is ____. |
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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| _____ is a disorder characterized by an intense fear of a particular situation or object. |
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| Phobia, or phobic disorder |
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