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| List the 8 Basic Aspects of Personality |
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1. Psychoanalytic
2. Neo-Analytic/Ego
3. Biological
4. Behaviorist
5. Cognitive
6. Trait
7. Humanistic
8. Interactionist |
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| Attention to unconscious influences: importance of sexual drives even in nonsexual spheres |
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| Emphasis on the self as it struglles to cope with emotions and drives on the inside and the demands of others on the outside |
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| Focus on tendencies and limits imposed by biological inheritance; easily combined with most other approaches |
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| Emphasis on a more scientific analysis of the learning experiences that shape personality |
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| Emphasis on active nature of human thought; usesmodern knowledge from cognitive psychology |
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| Focus on good individual assessment techniques |
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| Definte Humanistic/Existential |
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| Appreciation of the spiritual nature of a person; emphasizes struggles for self-fulfillment and dignity |
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| Understanding that we are different selves in different situations |
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| What is Personality psychoogy |
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| The scientific study of the psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves |
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| Give an example of unconscious aspects in personality |
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| any example that contains behaviors the individual exhibits, but is unware of doing. |
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| How does the ego-force affect an individual |
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| it drives the mastery of the identity of the person; maintains the control to keept his identity strong |
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| Describe the biological aspects of personality |
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| This is determined by unique genetic physical, physiological temperament of individual's system |
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| How do experiences and the surrounding environment affect a person? |
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| It shapes and conditions the personality |
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| How does the cognitive dimension affect people differently |
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| How people perecieve their environment and experiences is unique to each person and affects their personality differently by the way they interpret the experiences. |
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| How do traits and skills affect people? |
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| Eveyrone has skills or special traits inherent to them, that makes them different from others and affects their personality |
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| How does spirituality affect people? |
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| Everyone, whether they believe in a higher being or not, considers their existence and those musings affect personality |
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| What takes place between a person's nature and what surrounds them constantly to affect their personality |
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| What is Scientific Inference |
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| The use of systematically gathered evidence to test theories. |
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| What is a correlation coefficient? |
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| A mathematical index of the degree of agreement or association between two measurement |
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| Where do personality theories come from? |
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| Careful and deep introspection of insightful thinkers |
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| What is a Deductive Approach |
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| An approach to psychology in which the conclusions follow logically from the premises or assumptions |
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| What is an inductive approach |
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| An approach to psychology in which observations are systematically collected and concepts are developed based on what the data reveal |
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| attention to unconscious influences: importance of sexual drives even in nonsexual spheres is: |
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| emphasis on the self as it struggles to cope with emotions and drives on the inside and the demands of others on the outside |
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| focus on tendencies and limits imposed by biological inheritance easily combined with most other approaches |
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| emphasis on a more scientific analysis of the learning experiences that shape personality |
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| emphasis on active nature of human thought;uses modern knowledge from cognitive psychology |
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| focus on good individual assessment techniques |
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| Appreciation of the spiritual nature of a person; emphasizes struggles for self-fulfillment and dignity |
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| Understanding that we are different selves in different situations |
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| Are all personality perspectives correct? |
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| Yes all contribute in one way or another and should be considered. |
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| The philosophical idea that there is no underlying self but that the true self is composed merely of masks |
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| The philosophical idea that there is no underlying self but that the true self is composed merely of masks |
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| The philosophical idea that there is no underlying self but that the true self is composed merely of masks |
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| What does theater have to do with personality theory |
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| The masks used ingress theater and characters played by actors belied personality types such as greed, angry, happy etc. |
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| What is the Barnum effect |
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| The tendency to believe in the accuracy of vague generalities about one's personality |
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| What is the difference between Eastern and Western Religion's emphasis in Personality theory |
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Western religion people fulfill a divine purpose and struggle for good and against evil
Eastern concerns with consciousness, self-fulfillment. |
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| When did modern personality theory start taking shape? |
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| Why is Charles Darwin associated with the roots of cognitive approach to personality theory? |
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| The theory of evolution expanded thinking to the human mind in terms of biological terms. |
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| What are the central tenets of Gestalt theory |
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1. human beings seek meaning in their environments
2. We organize the sensations we receive from the world around us into meaningful perceptions
3complex stimuli are not reducible to the sum of their parts |
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| Kurt Lewin's Field Theory |
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| behavior is determined by complex interactions among a person's internal psychological structure, the forces of the external environment, andy eh structural relationships between the person and the environment. |
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| all internal and external forces that act on an individual and the structural relationships between the person and the environment |
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| Contemporaneous Causation |
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| the concept that behavior is caused at the moment of its occurrence by al the influences that are present in the individual at that moment |
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| An individual's distinctive enduring way of dealing with everyday tasks of perception and problem solving |
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| the extent to which an individual's problem solving is influenced by salient but irrelevant aspects of the context in which the problem occurs |
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| the extent to which an individual's problem solving is not influenced by salient but irrelevant aspects of the context in which the problem occurs |
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| The extent to which a person comprehends, utilizes, and is comfortable with a greater number of distinctions or separate elements among which an entity or event is analyzed, and the extent to which the person can integrate these elements by drawing connection or relationships among them. |
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| Is learning gained by observing others without regard to punitive or positive rewards. |
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| What is another phrase to describe vicarious learning |
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