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| individual’s characteristic pattern of feeling, acting, thinking, etc. |
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| Told patient to relax and say anything that comes to mind. |
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| Theory of personality and associated treatment techniques |
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| Contains thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories of which we are unaware. |
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| reservoir of unconscious psychic energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives. Operates on pleasure principle. |
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| conscious, executive part of personality that mediates demands of id, superego, and reality |
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| represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment |
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| Boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealously for the rival father |
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| Process which children incorporate parent’s values into their superegos. |
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| Focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier stage due to unresolved conflicts |
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| Tactics which ego uses to protect itself |
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| Banishes thoughts and feelings from consciousness. |
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| Retreat to earlier stage of development |
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| Unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites |
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| Disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others |
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| Occurs when we unconsciously general self-justifying examples to hide ourselves the real reasons for our actions |
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| Diverts sexual or aggressive impulses toward an object of person that is psychologically more acceptable than original target. |
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| Collective unconsciousness |
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| Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history |
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| Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli design to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics |
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| Thematic apperception test (TAT) |
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| Projective test which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. |
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| Set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots |
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| Proposes that faith in one’s worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provides protection against a deeply rooted fear of death. |
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| Process of fulfilling our potential |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| Attitude of total acceptance toward other person |
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| All the thoughts and feelings we have in response to the question “who am I?” |
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| Characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports |
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| A questionnaire on which people response to items to assess selected personality traits |
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| Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) |
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| Used for finding emotional disorders and many other purposes. |
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| Selecting those that discriminate between groups |
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| Social cognitive perspective |
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| Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context |
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| The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors |
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| Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless |
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| External locus of control |
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| Perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate |
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| Internal locus of control |
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| Perception that one controls one’s own fate |
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| The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events |
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| Overestimating other’s notices and evaluating our appearance, performance and blunders |
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| Readiness to perceive oneself favorably |
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| One’s feelings of high or low self-worth |
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