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test #5 capter 11 and 14
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/19/2014

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Personality
Definition
Your thoughts, feelings & behavior that characterizes how you adapt to the world
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Temperament
Definition
How your wired. Prevailing mood. How irritable you. How adaptable
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Trait theory
Gordon Allport
Definition
Central traits-as few as 5-7 traits listed most people would know who your talking about.
Common Trait-The trait of your "people"
Cardinal Trait- This trait is so dominate that all the other traits seem to line up with it.
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Secondary Traits
Definition
Interests and traits that can change. Ex. Music taste changes over time
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Ramen Cattell
Definition
Famous for 16 Personality Factors Test
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16PF
Definition
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Conscientiousness
Definition
Negligent
Lazy
Disorganized
Late
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Extroversion
Definition
Loner
Quiet
Passive
Reserved
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Agreeableness
Definition
Suspicious
Critical
Ruthless
Irritable
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Neuroticism
Definition
Calm
Even-tempered
Comfortable
Unemotional
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Openness to experience
Definition
Down-To-Earth
Uncreative
Conventional
Uncurious
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Humanist
Carl Rogers
Definition
You have your Ideal Self, Self Image, True Self
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Incongruent Personality
Definition
When ideal self, self image, and true self is off balance,
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Congruent Personality
Definition
When ideal self, self image, and true self is very balanced
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Ego & Super Ego
Definition
Moral Anxiety
Term
Ego & ID
Definition
Neurotic
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Rationalization
Definition
When you rationalize to justify YOUR actions. But if someone else does the same thing is wrong.
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Denial
Definition
When your deny the state your in
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Reaction Formation
Definition
When you act the opposite way you feel about someone.
Ex. Grandma has a bad feeling about you so she spoils you
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Regression
Definition
Go back to childhood things.
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Sublimation
Definition
if theres something bad about you'll find a socially accepted outlet for you.
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Compensation
Definition
to overcome inferiority you'll try harder in a different area to be equal.
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Personality (Book Def)
Definition
refers to a combination of long-lasting and distinctive behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that typify how we react and adapt to other people and situations.
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Theory of Personality
Definition
an organized attempt to describe and explain how personalities develop and why personalities differ.
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Freuds Psychoanalytic theory of personality
Definition
Emphasizes the importance of early childhood experiences, unconscious or repressed thoughts that we cannot voluntarily access and the conflicts between conscious and unconscious forces that influence our feelings, thoughts and behaviors.
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Conscious thoughts
Definition
are wishes, desires or thoughts that we are aware of or can recall at any given moment
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Unconscious forces
Definition
Represent wishes, desires, thoughts that because of their disturbing of threatening content, we automatically repress and cannot voluntarily access.
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unconscious Motivation
Definition
a freudian concept that refers to the influence of repressed thoughts, desires or impulses pin our conscious thoughts and behaviors.
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Free association
Definition
a freudian technique in which clients are encouraged to talk about any thoughts or images that enter their head; the assumption is that this kind of free flowing, uncensored talking will provide clues to unconscious material.
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Dream interpretation
Definition
A freudian technique of analyzing dreams, is based of the assumption that dreams contain underlying, hidden meanings and symbols that provide clues to unconscious desires and thoughts
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Freudian Slips
Definition
Mistakes that we make in everyday speech; such slips of the tongue, which are often embarrassing, are thoughts to reflect unconscious thoughts or wishes
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ID
Definition
Freuds first division of the mind to develop, contains 2 biological drives, SEX and AGGRESSION, that are the source of all psychic or mental energy. The goal is to pursue pleasure or satisfy the biological drive
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Pleasure Principal
Definition
Operates to satisfy drives and avoid pain, without concern for moral restriction or society's regulations.
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Ego
Definition
Freuds second division of the mind, develops from the ID during infancy; The goal is to find safe and socially acceptable ways of satisfying the ID's desire and to negotiate between the ID's wants and the superegos prohibitions
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Reality Principal
Definition
a policy or satisfying a wish or desire only if there is a socially acceptable outlet available
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SuperEgo
Definition
Freuds third division of the mind, develop from the ego during childhood; The goal is to apple the moral values and standards of ones parents or caregivers and society in satisfying one's wishes.
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Learned helplessness
Definition
You learn to be helpless in your childhood
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Conflict
Definition
When you have to choose between 2 things
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Ambivalent
Definition
When you have no idea
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General Adaption Sydrom
Definition
Hans Selye
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Rationalization
Definition
Invloves covering up the true reasons for actions, thoughts, or feelings by making up excuses and incorrect explanations
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Denial
Definition
Refusing to recognize some anxiety-provoking event or piece of information that is clear to others
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Repression
Definition
Involves blocking and pushing unacceptable or threatening feelings wishes or experiences into the unconscious.
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Projection
Definition
Falsley and unconsciously attributes your own unacceptable feelings, traits, or thoughts to individuals or objects
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Reaction Formation
Definition
Involves substituting behaviors, thoughts, or feelings that are the direct opposite of unacceptable ones
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Displacement
Definition
Involves, transferring feeling about, or response to, an object that causes anxiety to another person or object that is less threatening.
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Sublimation
Definition
which is a type of displacement, involves redirecting a threatening or forbidden desire, usually sexual, into a socially acceptable one.
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Psychosexual Stages
Definition
five developmental periods- oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stage-each marked by potential conflict between parent and child.
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Fixation
Definition
Can occur during any of the first three stages refers to fruedian process through which an individual may be locked into a certain stage
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Stress management
Definition
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