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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2008

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What is a Personality Trait?
Definition
is how a person behaves in a particular wasy in a variety of situation
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Name one of the concepts used to explain peronality
Definition
Consistency or Distinctiveness
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What is distinctiveness?
Definition
the behavioral diffrences among people reacting to the same situation
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Name one of the five-model of personality?
Definition
neuroticism, extraversion, openess to experience and conciousness
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Never eat onions at christmas
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Never eat onions at christmas
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What is the name of freud's peronality theory?
Definition
Freud's Psychoanalyic theory
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What are Frued's 3 personality components?
Definition
the id, ego and super ego
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what does the id do?
Definition
It operates under the pleasure principle
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what is the pleasure principle?
Definition
It demands instant gratifiction of its urges
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Where does the ego operate?
Definition
Its is the decision makind component that operates according to the reality principle
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What is the realty principle?
Definition
It seeks to delay gratification of the id's urges until apprporiate outlets and situations can be found
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What does the suger ego do?
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It is the moral componet of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong
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How many levels of awareness is their?
Definition
3
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Name the levels of awareness
Definition
The concious, the preconcious and the unconcious
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What is the concious aware of?
Definition
the current awareness
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what is the preconcious aware of?
Definition
material just beneth the surface
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what does the unconcious control?
Definition
material well below the surface of awareness
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Which state or states of conciousness is the id located?
Definition
The unconcious
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Which state or states of conciousness is the suger ego located?
Definition
The preconcious and the unconcious
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Which state or states of conciousness is the ego located?
Definition
THe concious and the preconcious
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What are defense mechanisms?
Definition
largely unconcious reactions that protect a person fom unpleasnt emotions such as anxiety and guilt
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What is rationaization?
Definition
crating false but plauible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior
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What is repression?
Definition
is when you keep disressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconcious
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What is projection?
Definition
is attributing ones own thoughts feelings or motives to another
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What is displacement?
Definition
diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a subsitute source
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What is reaction formation?
Definition
is behaving in a way that's exactly the opposite of one's true feelings
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What is regression?
Definition
a reversion to immature patterns of behavior
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What is identification?
Definition
is boistering self esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group
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Oprah And Phil Like Gum
Definition
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
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What are psychosexual stages?
Definition
developmentak periods with a characteristic sexual focus that leaves their mark on adult hood
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What is fixation?
Definition
s failure to move on from one stage to another as expected
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What age is the oral stage?
Definition
0-1
Term
What age is the Anal atage
Definition
2-3
Term
What age is the Phallic Stage
Definition
4-5
Term
What age is the latency stage?
Definition
6-12
Term
What age is the Genital Stage?
Definition
Puberty onward
Term
What is the focus in the oral stage?
Definition
The mouth
Term
WHat is the foucus in the anal stage?
Definition
The anus
Term
What is the focus in the phallic stage
Definition
the genitals
Term
What is the focus during the Latency stage
Definition
none sexual repression
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What is the focus in the genital stage?
Definition
genitals
Term
What is Oedipal complex?
Definition
when children mainfest erotically tinged desires for theri opposite sex parent, accompanied by hostile feelings toward their same sex parent
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What does Jung's analytical psycology empahasize?
Definition
unconcious determinats of personality,
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What are Jungs two types of unconcous?
Definition
The personal and collective
Term
What does the personal unconcious hosue?
Definition
materials that is not within one's concious awareness beacause it has been repressed or forgotten
Term
What does the collective unconcous collect?
Definition
it is a storehouse of latent memory traces tinherited from people's ancestoral past
Term
What are archetypes?
Definition
Emotionally charged images and thoughts forms that have univeral meaning
Term
What is a introvert?
Definition
an inner directed person who tends to be preoccupied with the internal world of their own thoughts feelings and experiences
Term
What is a extrovert?
Definition
An outer directed person who tend to be inteested in the external world of people and things
Term
What does adler's individual psychology empasize?
Definition
how social forces shape pesonality development
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What is striving for superiority?
Definition
a univeral drive to adapt, improve onesself and master life's challenges
Term
What is compensation?
Definition
efforts to overcome imained or real inferiories by developing one's abilites
Term
What is behaviorism?
Definition
the scientific notion that psychology should only study observable bahavior
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What is reciprocal determinism?
Definition
the idea that internal mentak events, external environmental event, and overt behavior all influence one another.
Term
What is a model?
Definition
A person whose behavior is obseved by another
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What is self- efficiency?
Definition
that one's beloef about one's particular abilty to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes
Term
What is the phemonilogical approach?
Definition
It assumes that one has to appreciate individuals personal subjective experiences to truely understand their behavior
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What is a self concept?
Definition
a collection of beliefs about one's own nature, unique qualites and typical behavior
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What is incogruence?
Definition
The degree of disparity between one's self-concept and one's actual experience
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What is hierachy of needs?
Definition
a systematic arrangement of needs according to priorty, in which basic needs must be met beforre less basic needs are aroused
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What is the need for self-actualiztion?
Definition
the need to fulfil one's potential
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What are self actualizing people usually?
Definition
people marked with exceptionally healthy personalities, marked by continued personal growth
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What is indivdualism?
Definition
putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's idenity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships
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What is collectiveism?
Definition
putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to
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What is self enhancement?
Definition
focusing on psotive feedback from others, exaggerating one's strengths and seeing oneself as above average
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What is self report inventories?
Definition
personality test that ask individuals to answer a series of questions about their characteristics
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