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What is a Personality Trait? |
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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 |
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Consistency or Distinctiveness |
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the behavioral diffrences among people reacting to the same situation |
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Name one of the five-model of personality? |
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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? |
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Freud's Psychoanalyic theory |
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What are Frued's 3 personality components? |
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the id, ego and super ego |
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It operates under the pleasure principle |
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what is the pleasure principle? |
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It demands instant gratifiction of its urges |
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Where does the ego operate? |
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Its is the decision makind component that operates according to the reality principle |
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What is the realty principle? |
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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? |
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Name the levels of awareness |
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The concious, the preconcious and the unconcious |
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What is the concious aware of? |
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what is the preconcious aware of? |
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material just beneth the surface |
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what does the unconcious control? |
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material well below the surface of awareness |
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Which state or states of conciousness is the id located? |
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Which state or states of conciousness is the suger ego located? |
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The preconcious and the unconcious |
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Which state or states of conciousness is the ego located? |
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THe concious and the preconcious |
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What are defense mechanisms? |
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largely unconcious reactions that protect a person fom unpleasnt emotions such as anxiety and guilt |
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crating false but plauible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior |
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is when you keep disressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconcious |
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is attributing ones own thoughts feelings or motives to another |
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diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a subsitute source |
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What is reaction formation? |
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is behaving in a way that's exactly the opposite of one's true feelings |
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a reversion to immature patterns of behavior |
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is boistering self esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group |
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Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital |
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What are psychosexual stages? |
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developmentak periods with a characteristic sexual focus that leaves their mark on adult hood |
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s failure to move on from one stage to another as expected |
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What age is the oral stage? |
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What age is the Anal atage |
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What age is the Phallic Stage |
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What age is the latency stage? |
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What age is the Genital Stage? |
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What is the focus in the oral stage? |
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WHat is the foucus in the anal stage? |
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What is the focus in the phallic stage |
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What is the focus during the Latency stage |
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What is the focus in the genital stage? |
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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? |
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unconcious determinats of personality, |
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What are Jungs two types of unconcous? |
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The personal and collective |
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What does the personal unconcious hosue? |
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materials that is not within one's concious awareness beacause it has been repressed or forgotten |
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What does the collective unconcous collect? |
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it is a storehouse of latent memory traces tinherited from people's ancestoral past |
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Emotionally charged images and thoughts forms that have univeral meaning |
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an inner directed person who tends to be preoccupied with the internal world of their own thoughts feelings and experiences |
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An outer directed person who tend to be inteested in the external world of people and things |
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What does adler's individual psychology empasize? |
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how social forces shape pesonality development |
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What is striving for superiority? |
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a univeral drive to adapt, improve onesself and master life's challenges |
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efforts to overcome imained or real inferiories by developing one's abilites |
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the scientific notion that psychology should only study observable bahavior |
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What is reciprocal determinism? |
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the idea that internal mentak events, external environmental event, and overt behavior all influence one another. |
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A person whose behavior is obseved by another |
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What is self- efficiency? |
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that one's beloef about one's particular abilty to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes |
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What is the phemonilogical approach? |
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It assumes that one has to appreciate individuals personal subjective experiences to truely understand their behavior |
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a collection of beliefs about one's own nature, unique qualites and typical behavior |
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The degree of disparity between one's self-concept and one's actual experience |
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What is hierachy of needs? |
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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? |
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the need to fulfil one's potential |
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What are self actualizing people usually? |
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people marked with exceptionally healthy personalities, marked by continued personal growth |
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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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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? |
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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? |
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personality test that ask individuals to answer a series of questions about their characteristics |
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