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Perspectives on Personality
Chapter 9 - Carver/Scheier 7th edition
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
04/01/2015

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Attachment
Definition
An emotional connection to someone else.
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Competence Motivation
Definition
The need to be effective or successful in dealing with environment.
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Effectance Motivation
Definition
The need to have impact on the environment.
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Ego Control
Definition
The extent to which a person controls or inhibits impulses.
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Ego Identity
Definition
The overall sense of self that emerges from your transactions with social reality.
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Ego Quality (Ego Strength or Virtue)
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The quality that becomes part of your personality through successful management of a crisis.
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Ego Resiliency
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The ability to flexibly modify your typical level of ego control to adapt to new contexts.
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Epigenesis
Definition
The idea (adopted from embryology) that an internal plan for future development is present at the beginning of life.
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Feelings of Inferiority
Definition
The feeling that you are deficient in some way.
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Life-span Development
Definition
The idea that developmental processes continue throughout life.
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Mirroring
Definition
The giving of positive attention and supportiveness to someone.
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Narcissism
Definition
A sense of grandiose self-importance and entitlement.
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Narrative
Definition
A story you compose for yourself about life to create a coherent sense of identity.
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Object Relations
Definition
An individual's symbolized relations to other persons (such as parents).
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Play Therapy
Definition
The use of play as a procedure for conducting therapy with children.
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Psychosocial Crisis (or Conflict)
Definition
A turning point in a developmental period when some interpersonal issue is being dealt with and growth potential and vulnerability are both high.
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Self Psychology
Definition
Kohut's theory that relationships create the structure of the self.
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Selfobject
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The mental representation of another person who functions to satisfy your needs.
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Separation-individuation
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The process of acquiring a distinct identity; separating from fusion with the mother.
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Strange Situation
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A procedure used to assess the attachment pattern of the infant to the mother.
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Symbiosis
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A period in which an infant experiences fusion with the mother.
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Transference
Definition
The viewing of other people through selfobject representations originally developed for parents.
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