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Vocabulary Chapter 10
Doctor Nancy Loman
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
12/05/2011

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Archetypes
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Emotionally laden ideas and images that have rich and symbolic meaning for all people.
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Collective unconscious
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Jung's name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all human beings because of their common ancestral past.
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Defense mechanisms
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Tactics the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
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Ego
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The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality.
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Empirically keyed test
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A type of self-report test that presents many questionnaire items to two groups that are known to be different in some central way.
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Face validity
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The quality of seeming, on the surface, to fit a particular trait in question.
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Humanistic perspective
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Theoretical views stressing a person's capacity for personal growth and positive human qualities.
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Personality
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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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Projective test
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A personality assessment test that presents individuals with an ambiguous stimulus and asks them to describe it or tell a story about it—to project their own meaning onto the stimulus.
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Psychodynamic perspective:
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Theoretical views emphasizing that personality are primarily unconscious (beyond awareness).
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Rorschach inkblot test
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A famous projective test that uses an individual's perception of inkblots to determine his or her personality.
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self-efficacy
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The belief that one can master a situation and produce positive change.
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Social cognitive perspective
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The belief that one can master a situation and produce positive change.
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Thematic Apperception Test
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A projective test that is designed to elicit stories that reveal something about an individual's personality.
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Unconditional positive regard
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Rogers's construct referring to the individual's need to be accepted, valued, and treated positively regardless of his or her behavior.
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