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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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| Personality psychologists study |
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–Characteristics that remain stable or change
–Effect of the social context on the person
–Influence of personality on coping
Role of personality in illness |
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•(competition with
superego/influence/bad)
–Instincts and reservoir of
psychic energy
–Pleasure principle |
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•(Decider)
–Deals with the demands of
reality
•Reality principle |
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•(influence/good)Good Angel
–Moral branch of personality;
“conscience” do or don’t do
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Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Phallic Stage
Latency Stage
Genital Stage |
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Push unaccepted impulses out of awareness (pushing ice berg beneath the surface.) |
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giving another explanation to cover up what you are actually doing. |
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Shift the blame (boss yells at you at work so you come home and yell at your wife) |
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replace a motive with something acceptable (your friend wants to hang out but you lie and say oyu can't.) |
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Push it off onto someone else |
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don't believe it, refuse to accept the truth |
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Reverting back to a sexual stage |
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Self-Actualization: the motivation to develop one's full potential as a human being |
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Self-Concept: individuals overall perceptions and assesments of his or her abilities, behavior, and personality. |
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personality consists of traits that tend to lead to characteristic responses (people can be described in terms of the basic ways they behave, such as whether they are outogoing and firendly or dominant and assertive |
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Opnesses
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism (emotional stability) |
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directly ask people whether specific items describe their personality ( I am easily Embarassed) |
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| personality tool that presents individuals with an ambiguous stimulus and then asks them to describe it or tell a story about it-- in other words to project their own meaning onto it. |
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Most widely used, self-report personality test |
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Why are projective tests Biased? |
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It's too open ended, leaves too much room for error |
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