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| a person's characterisitic patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling |
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| Freud, the thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories of which a person is aware at any given moment |
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| Freud, the primary motivating force of human behavior, containing repressed memories as well as instincts, wishes, and desires that never been conscious |
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| Freud, the unconscious system of personality, which contains the life and death instincts operates on the pleasure principle; source of the libido |
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| Freud, the logical rational largely conscious system of personality, which operates according to the reality principle |
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| Freud, the moral system of the personality, which consists of the conscience and the ego ideal |
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| a means used by the ego to defend against anxiety and to maintain self-esteem |
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| the event that occurs when short-term memory is filled to capacity and each new, incoming item pushes out existing item, which is then forgotten |
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| Regression is another one of the defense mechanisms identified by Freud. According to Freud there are times when people are faced with situations that are so anxiety provoking that they can't deal with it and they protect themselves by retreating to an earlier stage of development. |
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| the most frequently used defense mechanism. It involves removing painful or threatening memories, thoughts, or perceptions from consciousness and keeping them in the unconscious |
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| Projection is one of the defense mechanisms identified by Freud and still acknowledged today. According to Freud, projection is when someone is threatened by or afraid of their own impulses so they attribute |
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| In Jung's theory, the layer of the unconscious that contains all of the thoughts, perceptions, and experiences accessible to the conscious, as well as repressed memories, wishes, and impulses |
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| In Jung's theory, th most inaccessible layer of the unconscious, which contains the iniversal experiences of humankind throughout evolution |
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| In Jung. Existing in the collective unconscious, an inherited tendency to respond to universal human situations in particular way |
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| assumed to have natural tendency toward growth and the realization of their fullest potential |
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means developing to one
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| conditions on which the positive regard of other rests |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| unqualigied caring and nonjudgmental acceptance of another |
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| a paper-and-pencil test with questions about a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, which measures several dimensions of personality and can be scored according to a standard procedure |
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| minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) |
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| the most extensively researched and widely used personality test, which is used to screen for and diagnose psychiatric problems and disorders |
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| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) |
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| a personality inventory useful for measuring normal individual differencesl based on Jung's theory of personality |
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| california personality inventory (CPI) |
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| a highly regarded personality test developed especially for normal indviduals aged 13 and older |
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| a personality test in which people respond to inkblots, drawings of ambiguous human situations, or incomplete sentences by projecting their inner thoughts, feelings, fears, or conflicts onto the test materials |
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| a projective test composed of 10 inkblots that the test taker is asked to describel used to assess personality, make differential diagnoses, plan and evaluate treatment, and predict behavior |
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| Thematic apperception test (TAT) |
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| a projective test consisting of drawings of ambiguous human situations, which the test taker describe; thought to reveal inner feelings, conflicts, and motives, which are projected onto the test materials |
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