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Chapter 11
Personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2012

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Factor Analysis
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Correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables
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Extraversion
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(positive emotionally) People who are outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive, and gregarious
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Neuroticism
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{negative emotionally) People who are anxious, hostile, self-conscious, insecure, and vulnerable
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Openess to experience
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Associates with curiosity, flexibility, vivd fantasy, imaginativeness, artistic sensitivty, and unconventional attitudes
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Agreeableness
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People who tend to be sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest, and straightforward
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Conscientiousness
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People who tend to be diligent, disciplined, well-organized, punctual, and dependable
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Conscientiousness
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People who tend to be diligent, disciplined, well-organized, punctual, and dependable
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ID
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The primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle
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EGO
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The decision-making component of personality that operates accordling to the reality principle
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The superego
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The moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong
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Rationalization
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Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior
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Repression
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Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious. Also known as motivated forgetting
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Projection
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Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another
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Displacement
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Diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitute target
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Reaction Formation
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Behaving in a way that's exactly opposite of one's true feelings
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Regression
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A reversion to immature patterns of behavior
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Identification
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Bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group
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Oral stage, psychosexual
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(Ages 0 - 1) The main source of erotic stimulation is in the mouth (in biting, sucking, and chewing) Key Task: weaning from beast or bottle
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Anal Stage, psychosexual
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(Ages 2-3) The child gets their erotic pleasure from their bowel movements, through either the explusion or retention of feces. Key Task: Toliet Training
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Phallic Stage, psychosexual
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(Ages 4 - 5) The gentials become the focus for the child's erotic energy, largely through self-stimulation. Key Task: Identify with adult role models.
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Latency Stage, psychosexual
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(Ages 6-12) The child's sexuality is largely suppressed. Key tasks: Expanding social contacts
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Gential Stage
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(Puberty-now) The sexual urges reappear and sexual energy is channled towards other peers rather than on one self
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Archetypes
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Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have a universal meaning. (Ancestral memories)
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Adler
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.Practiced Ophthalmology and general medicine before turning to psychiatry, he was a charter member of Freud's inner circle - The Vienna Psychoanalytic society
. He developed his own approach to personality, individual psychology
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Albert Bandura
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. A modern theorist who has helped reshape the theortical landscape of behavorism
.He created the social cognitive theory - social learning theory
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Humanistic
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They believed people can rise above their primitive animal heritage, that people are largely conscious and rational beings who are not dominated by unconscious, irrational conflicts, and that people are not helpless pawns of deterministic forces
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Carl Rogers
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One of the fathers of the human potential movement and created the person-centered theory and self concept (your mental picture of yourself)
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Maslow
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proposed that human motives are organized into hierarchy of needs- a systematic arrangement of needs in which basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused
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Karen Horney
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Developed feminne psychology. Created the theory on womb envy- how men envy women for creating life (creating the new generation of life)
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Karen Horney
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Developed feminne psychology. Created the theory on womb envy- how men envy women for creating life (creating the new generation of life)
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The Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI)
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designed to aid clinicans in the diagnosis of psychological disorders, it measures 10 personality traits that are thought to be symptons of disorders
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Projective Tests
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Ask participants to responds to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that may reveal the subjects' needs, feelings, and personality traits (like Ink Blots)
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