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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 to the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behavior or mental state. |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic pErsonality Inventory (MMPI-2) |
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| a well-researched clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems |
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| A standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual's personality. |
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| a projective personality test in which individual interpretations of the meaning of a set of unstructured inkblots are analyzed to identif 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 personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world through 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 of awareness- motives that can also produce emotional disorders. |
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| an active system of encmpassing 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 drive 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 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 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 uspplying 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 or drives to a neutral or less-threatening alternative |
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