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| A pattern of enduring distinctive thoughts emotions and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world |
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| Psychodynamic Perspectives |
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| Theoretical view emphasizing that personality is primarily unconscious (beyond awareness) |
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| Part of the person that freud called the it. Consists of unconscious drives. sexual energy |
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| Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality |
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| Freudian structure of personality that serves as the harsh internal judge of our behavior. what we call conscience. |
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| Tactics the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality |
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| Boy's internal desire to replace his father and enjoy affections of his mother |
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| Jung's term for the impersonal deepest layer of the unconscious mind shared by all human beings because of their common ancestral past. |
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| Jung's term for emotionally laden ideas and images in the collective unconscious that have rich and symbolic meaning for all people |
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| Adler's view that people are motivated by purposes and goals and that perfection not pleasure is thus the key motivator in human life. |
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| Theoretical views stressing a person's capacity for personal growth and positive human qualities |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| Roger's construct referring to the individual's need to be accepted valued and treated positively regardless of his or her behavior |
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| The standards that the individual must live up to in order to receive positive regard from others |
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| Views stressing that personality consists of broad, enduring traits that tend to lead to characteristic responses |
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| Big Five factors of Personality |
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| 5 broad traits that are thought to describes the main dimensions of personality. |
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| Personological/ Life story Perspectives |
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| Views stressing that the way to understand the person is to focus on his or her life history and life story |
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| Cognitive Affective Processing Systems CAPS |
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| Mischel's model for describing that our thoughts and emotions about ourselves and the world affect our behavior and become linked in ways that matter to behavior |
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| AKA Self report test. A method of measuring personality characteristics that directly asks people whether specific items describe their personality traits |
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| Type of Self report test that presents many questionnaire items to two groups that are known to be different in a central way. |
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| Most widely used and researched empirically keyed self report personality test |
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| Extent to which a test item appears to be a good fit to the characteristic it measures. |
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| Personality assessment test that presents individuals with an ambiguous stimulus and asks them to describe it or tell a story about it. Projecting their own meaning on the neutral stimulus |
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| Famous projective test that sues an individual's perception of ink blots to determine their personality |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| A projective test that is designed to elicit stories that reveal something about an individual's personality |
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| Cluster of characteristics- Competitive, hard driven, impatient. related to heart disease. |
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| Relaxed, easy going, and related to good health |
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| A person's assessment of his or her own level of positive affect relative to negative affect and the individual's evaluation of his or her life in general |
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