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| An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. |
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| Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. |
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| According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. |
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| Contains an reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. |
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| The largely conscious, "executive" parts of the personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically being pleasure rather than pain. |
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| The part of the personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations. |
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| The childhood stages of development(oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones. |
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| According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father. |
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| The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent's values into their developing superegos. |
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| According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. |
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. |
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| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated. |
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. |
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| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings. |
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| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. |
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| Defense mechanisms that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions. |
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| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet. |
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| Carl Jung's concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history. |
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| A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics. |
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| Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT) |
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| A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. |
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| The most widely used prjective test, a set of ten inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots. |
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| Proposes that faith in one's world view and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death. |
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| According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential. |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person. |
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| All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "who am I?" |
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| A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports |
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| A questionnaire, often with true-false or agree-disagree items, on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits. |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) |
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| The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes. |
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| A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups. |
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| Social-cognitive perspective |
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| Views behaviors as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context. |
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| The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors |
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| Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless. |
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| External Locus of control |
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| The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one;s personal control determine one's fate. |
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| Internal locus of control |
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| The perception that one controls one's own fate. |
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| The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. |
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| The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive. |
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| Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as we presume a spotlight shines on us). |
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| One's feelings of high or low self-worth. |
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| A readiness to perceive oneself favorably. |
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| Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns. |
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| Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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| A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. |
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