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| A standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual's personality |
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Thematic Apperception Test |
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| A projective personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world though thr stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people |
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The traits of the five-factor model: - Conscientiousness
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
- openess to experience
- extraversion
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| An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, ther person's deepest instincts and desires, and the person's inner struggle to control these forces |
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| Distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experience sexual pleasures from specific body areas and caregivers redirect or interfere with those pleasure |
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| The first psychosexual stage, in which experience centers on the pleasures and frustrations associated with the mouth, sucking and being fed |
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| The second psychosexual stage, which is dominated by the pleasure and frustrations associated with the anus, retention and expulsion of feces and urine, and toilet training |
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Third stage Association and frustration with phallic-genital Also powerful incestuous feelings of love, hate, jealous and conflict |
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Fourth stage Primary focus on development of intellectual, creative, interpersonal and athletic skills |
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| Self Actualizing Tendency |
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| The human motive toward realizing our inner potential |
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| School of thought that regards personality as governed by an individual's ongoing choices and decisions in the contex of the realities of life and death |
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| A person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment |
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| The tendency to seek evidence to confirm the self-concept |
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| People's tendency to take credit for their successes but downplay responsibility for their failures |
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| A trait that reflects a grandiose view of the self combined with a tendency to seek admiration from and exploit others |
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| Treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem |
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| Psychodynamic Psychotherapies |
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| A general approach to treatment that explores childhood events and encourages indviduals to develop insight into their psychological problems |
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| An event that occurs un psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client's life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious chilhood fantasies |
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| A form of behavior that uses positive punishment to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behavior |
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| An approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion arousing stimulus directly and repeadtedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response |
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| Client relaxs muscle in body while thinking of scary situations |
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Clients are taught to examine the evidence for and against a particular belief or to be more accepting of outcomes that may be undesirable but manegable |
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| Form of cognitive therapy that teaches person to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings and sensations |
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| An existentialist approach to treatment with the goal of helping the client become aware of his or her thoughts, behaviors, experiences, and feelings and to "own" them |
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