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Intro to PSYC
Personality, Disorder of the Mind and Body
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/08/2011

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Personality
Definition
consists of the characteristics thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances
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Personality Trait
Definition
how people differ in one or few dimensions
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Dynamic personality
Definition
goal seeking, sensitive to context, and adaptive to environment
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Psychological Systems
Definition
psychological nature of personality while recognizing that personality arises from basic biological processes
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Characteristic
Definition
behaviors, thoughts, and feelings
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Psycho-dynamic theory
Definition
unconscious forces influence behavior
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Instincts
Definition
psychic forces
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Life Instinct
Definition
the desire to satisfy libidinal urges for pleasure
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Libido
Definition
energy drives pressure principle
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Topography Model
Definition
structure of the mind's three levels of mental awareness: conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious
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Pre-conscious level
Definition
content that's not currently in awareness but could be brought to awareness (long term)
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Unconscious level
Definition
contains material that the mind can't easily retrieve (wishes, desires, motives) associated with conflict anxiety or pain
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Psychosexual stage
Definition
progression through stages that affect personality
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fixated
Definition
stage during which they receive excessive parental restriction or indulgence
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Rationalize
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blaming situational factors over which they have little control
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Reality Principle
Definition
involves rational thought and problem solving
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Reaction formation
Definition
occurs when a person words off an uncomfortable thought about self by embracing opposite thought
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