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Personality
The psycological view of the human personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/24/2011

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Sigmund Freud theroy, that the unconscious part of the personality that contains memories, knowledge, beliefs, feelings, urges, drives, and instincts of which one is not aware,preconscious motivates much of our behavior
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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Based on the idea that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which they have no control, such as slip of tongue is know as what?
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Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory,unorganized, Raw inborn part of personality, pleasure priniciple, immediate reduction of tension and the mamimization of pleasure.Holds primitive drives
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Id
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Sigmund Freud theroy,strives to balance the desires of the id and the realities of the objective, outside world,Reality principle
“Executive” of personality
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Ego
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Represents the rights and the wrongs of society as taught and modeled by one’s parents, teachers, and other significant individuals
Includes the (conscience)
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Super- Ego
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Individuals encounter conflicts between the demands of society and their own sexual urges Freud theroy,oral anal,phallic,latency and gential.
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Psychosexual Stages
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Unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing its source from themselves and others
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Defense Mechanisms
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unacceptable or unpleasant ID impluses are pushed back into the unconscious, such as a college student who has feelings of hatred toward a his mother personaly and socially unacceptable feelings.
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Repression
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Common set of ideas, feelings, images, and symbols that we inherit from our relatives, the whole human race, and even animal ancestors from the distant past, behaviors that are shared across diverse cultures such as love of mother, belif in a sumpreme being or as specific as fear of snakes.
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Jung’s Collective Unconscious
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Universal symbolic representations of a particular person, object, or experience
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Archetypes
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First feminist psychologist
Suggested that personality develops in the context of social relationships and depends particularly on the relationship between parents and child
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Horney’s Neo-Freudian Perspective
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Proposed that the primary human motivation is a striving for superiority in a quest for self-improvement and perfection
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Adler and the Other Neo-Freudians
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Alder's describes to situations in which adults have not been able to overcome the feelings of inferiority they developed as children
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Inferiority complex
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Seeks to explain, in a straightforward way, the consistencies in individuals’ behavior, such as a friendly person vs unfriendly person, but both have a friendly trait.
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Traits Theroy
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Consistent personality characteristics and behaviors displayed in different situations
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Traits
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Single characteristic that directs most of a person’s activities, such as a selfless person may direct his energy toward humanitarian activities or an intensely power-hungry person may be driven by all consuming need for power.
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Cardinal Trait
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Major characteristics of an individual, such as honesty, sociability.
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Central Trait
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Affect behavior in fewer situations and less influential than central and cardinal traits, a mild reluctance to eating meat or a casual interest in arts.
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Secondary Trait
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According to Eysenck's a person that is lively and sensation-seeking is high on what trait?
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extaversion
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States that personality is a collection of learned behavior patterns is which behavioralist approach.
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B.F Skinner
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Emphasize the influence of cognition, thoughts feeling,expectation and values as well ae observation of others behaviors in determining personality.
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Social Cognitive Approaches
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Suggest that important components of personality are inherited
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Biological and Evolutionary Approaches
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How can we most accurately assess personality?
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Reliability and validity
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What are the major types of personality measures?
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Self report measure.Ask people about a relatively small sample of their behavior
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -2 (MMPI-2)
Test standardization
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Consistency of personality test?
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Reliability
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Measrue what is designed to be measured?
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Validity
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Standards that sre used to compare scores of different people taking the same test?
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Norms
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Pattern of enduring characteristic that produces consistency and individuality in a given person.
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Personality
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Theories that emphasizes peoples innate goodness and desire to achieve higher levels of function
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Humanistic Approach
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A standard measurement devised to assess behavior, used to help people make better decsision about theis life.
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psychological test
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A method of gathering data about people asking question about a sample behavior.
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self-report measure
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A widely used report tha identify people with psychological diffuclties and emplyed to predict eveyday behavior.
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MMPI-2
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Personality test that study the response of peoples with known diagnoses
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test standadization
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test in which a person is shown ambiguous stimuli and asked to describe it.
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projective personality test
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Consisting of pictures about which a person is ask to write a story.
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Thematics Apperception Test
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