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Chapter 10 Personality Theories
forces that shaoe our personalities, what persistent patterns or dispositions, mskr up personalities, how do mental processes help shape personalities, theries to understand themselves and others
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Physiology
Undergraduate 2
04/27/2013

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personality
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psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individuals behavior in different situations at different times
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dispositional theory
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includes temperament, trait, and type approaches to personality
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five factor theory
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openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
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reliability
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attribute of psychological test gives consistent results
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traits
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multiple stable personality characteristics exist within individual and guide his or her thoughts and actions under various conditions
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validity
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attribute of psychological test measures what is being used to measure
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archetype
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ancient memory images in collective unconcious
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collective unconciousness
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Jung's addition to the unconcious reservoir for instinctive memories includes archetype
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ego
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concious, rational part of personality charged with keeping peace between superego and id
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ego defense mechanism
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extraversion
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personality dimension involves turning ones attention outward, toward others
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fully functioning person
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Carl Rodger's term for healthy, self actualizing individual has self concept both positive and congruent to reality
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humanistic theories
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id
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unconcious portion of personality houses basic drives and stores repressed memories
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introversion
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focus on inner experience ones own thoughts, and feelings less outgoing and sociable
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locus of control
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individuals sense of whether control over his or her life is internal or external
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neo freudian
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"new freudians"
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personal unconcious
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Jung's term that portion of the unconcious corresponding roughly to Freudian id
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phenomonal field
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one psychological reality composed of one's perception and feelings
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positive psychology
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psychic determinism
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freud's assumption that all mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconcious traumas, desires, or conflicts
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psychodynamic theory
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group of theories originated with Freud. All emphasize motivation (unconcious) influence of the past on development of mental disorders
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reciprical determinsim
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process in which cognitions, behavior, and environment mutually influence each other.
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repression
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self actualizing personality
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superego
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minds storehouse og values includes moral attitudes
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unconcious
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implicit personality theory
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person's set of unquestioned assumptions about personality, used to simplify task of understanding others
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