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Durable disposition to behave in a certain way in a variety of situations
ex. honest, impulsive, excitable |
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1. Extraversion - outgoing, social
2. Neuroticism - anxious, hostile,
3. Openness to Experience - curiosity, imaginative
4. Agreeableness - sympathetic, trusting
5. Conscientious - disciplined, punctual |
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| Attempts to explain personality, motivation and psych disorders by focusing on childhood unconscious motives and methods used to cope with sexual urges |
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| Freud's 3 Components of Personality |
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"id" - primitive, instinctive component that operates according to pleasure principle
"ego" - decision making component that operates according to reality principle
"superego" - moral component that incorporates social standards about right and wrong |
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Conscious - what one is aware of at the time
Preconscious - material just beneath the surface can be retrieved easily
Unconscious - thoughts, memories and desires well below surface of conscious awareness but have influence on behaviour |
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| Largely unconscious reactions that project a person from unpleasant emotions like anxiety and guilt |
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Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious
"motivated forgetting" |
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| Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings or motives to another |
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| Diverting emotional feelings from original source to substitute target |
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| Creating false but plausible excuses to justify acceptable behaviour |
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| Behaving in a way that's exact opposite from one's true feelings |
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| Reversion to immature patterns fo behaviour |
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| Bolstering self-esteem by forming imaginary real alliance with some person or group |
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| Children manifest erotically tinged desires for opposite sex parent and hostility toward same sex parent |
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| Houses material that is not within one's awareness because it was repressed or forgotten |
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| Storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from ancestors |
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Oral Stage (0-1)
Anal Stage (2-3)
Phallic Stage (4-5)
Latency Stage (6-12)
Genital (puberty onward) |
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| Emotionally charges images that have universal meaning |
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| Idea that internal mental events, external environmental events and overt behaviour all influence each other |
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