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Psychology 3081 Exam 3
Personality Psychology with Sonia Shah
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
11/03/2014

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Hartshorne & May Studies of Honesty
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U.S. children were tested for moral behavior by being placed in a variety of situations where there was temptation to act out
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Henry Stack Sullivan
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Neglected by parents, had homosexual tendencies. Created Theory of Chumship and Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry, integrated the work of Mead and Sapir
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Illusion of Individuality
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the idea that a person has a single, fixed personality is just an illusion
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B=f(P,E)
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Behavior is a function of personality and environment
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Jung
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Jung believed that everyone is healthier with a little masculinity and femininity inside them. 3 components; Androgyny, anima, animus
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Androgyny
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The consolidation of both anima and animus components
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Anima
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The female component
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Animus
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The male component
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Functional Equivalence
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When people behave in different ways but behaviors come from an underlying emotion
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3 Concepts related to delayed gratification
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1. Modeling
2. Visibility of desired object
3. Cognitive Strategies
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Modeling
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Observe what others do, and try to do what they are
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Visibility of Desired Object
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Cake is out of sight, so they won't eat it
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Cognitive Strategies
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Distract yourself with other things, don't eat the cake
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Mirror Neurons
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Brain cells that react in the same way both when a person (or animal) acts and when they see another person act in the same way
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Sex
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Biological, determined by XX or XY chromosomes
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Gender
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Social Identity, the way you see yourself.
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Bem Sex Role Inventory
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A measure designed by Sandra Bem to classify individuals as masculine, feminine, androgynous or undifferentiated
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Type T Personality
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"Thrill Seeking".Frank H. Farley's theory that suggests a psychobiological need for simulation due to an internal arousal deficit
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Sick Role
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A set of societal expectations about how a person should behave when ill
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Diathesis-Stress Model
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Model of disease that suggests that although a pre-disposition to illness exists because of genetics or upbringing, the illness itself will not appear until it is elicited by the environment
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Diathesis
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The predisposition of the body to disease or disorder
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Emic Approach
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An approach that is culture-specific, focusing on a single culture on its own terms
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Etic Approach
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An approach that is cross-cultural, searching for generalities across cultures
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Ethnocentrism
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Evaluating other's from one's own cultural point of view
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Cluster A: suspicious, odd
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Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
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Cluster B: dramatic
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Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic
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Cluster C: anxious
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Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive-Compulsive
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