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AP Psychology Chapter 10
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Psychology
11th Grade
02/21/2012

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Personality
Definition
the psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in differnt situations and at different times
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders
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Psychoanalytic Theory
Definition
Freud's theory of personality
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Libido
Definition
Freudian concept of psychic energy that drives individuals to experience sensual pleasure
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Id
Definition
primitive unconscious portion of personality
houses repressed memories and drives
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Superego
Definition
mind's storehouse of values and moral attributes learned
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Ego
Definition
the conscious, rational part of the personality
keeps peace between Id and Superego
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Psychosexual Stages
Definition
Successive, instinctive patterns of associating pelasure with stimulation of specific bodil areas ant different times in life
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THE psychosexual stages
Definition
Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Phallic Stage
Latency
Genital Stage
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Oedipus Complex
Definition
boys displace an erotic attraction toward their mother to females of their own age and at the same time identify with their fathers
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Identification
Definition
mental process by which an individual tries to become like another person, esp the same-sex parent
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Penis envy
Definition
the female desire to have a penis - a condition that usually results in their attraction to males
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Fixation
Definition
Occurs when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Definition
unconscious mental strategies to reduce conflict/anxiety
(aka defense mechanisms)
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Repression
Definition
excludes unacceptable thoughts/feelings from awareness and memory
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Oral Stage
Definition
oral stimulation through stimulation of mouth
can lead to mouth-ish problems / dependency
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Anal Stage
Definition
bladder/bowel functions (toilet training)
can lead to problems of control/ or lack thereof
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Phallic Stages
Definition
stimulation of genitals
can lead to problems with jealousy, relationships
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Latency
Definition
repression of relationships with other sex
lead to modesty, realizing same-sex preference
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Genital Stage
Definition
mature sexual relationships
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Rorschach inkblot techniques
Definition
projective test requiring subjects to describe what they see in a series of ten inkblots
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Thematic Apperception Test
Definition
(TAT) projective test requiring subjects to make up stories from pictures
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Psychic Determinism
Definition
(Freud) the belief that all our responses are based off of unconscious traumas/conflicts/etc
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NEo-Freudians
Definition
theorists who took some of Freud's theories and twisted them
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Personal Unconscious
Definition
(Jung) congruent to Freud's Id
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Collective Unconscious
Definition
(Jung) includes reservoir for memories and archetypes
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Introversion
Definition
inner experience that makes introverts less sociable/outgoing than extroverts
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Extraversion
Definition
Jungian personality dimension involving turning one's attention outward, toward others
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Basic Anxiety
Definition
(Horney)basically, just anxiety
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Neurotic NEeds
Definition
signs of neurosis in Horney's theory
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Inferiority Complex
Definition
a feeling of inferiority that is largely unconscious
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Compensation
Definition
making up for one's real or imagined deficiencies
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Traits
Definition
stable persaonlity characteristics that are presumed to exist in individuals
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Central Traits
Definition
traits that form the basis of personality
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Secondary Traits
Definition
preferences and attitudes
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Cardinal Traits
Definition
personality coponents that define people's lives
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Self-actualizing personalities
Definition
Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities
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Fully Functioning Person
Definition
(Rogers) healthy, self-actualizing individual who has a self-concept that is both positive and congruent with reality
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Phenomenal Field
Definition
one's psychological reality, composed of perceptions and feelings
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Positive Psychology
Definition
focuses on desirable espects of human functioning
(humanism)
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Observational Learning
Definition
the process of learning new responses by watching others' behaviors
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Reciprocal Determinism
Definition
cognitions/behaviors/environment mutually influence each other
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Locus of Control
Definition
individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate
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5-factor Theory
Definition
trait perspective is based on 5 fundamental dimensions:
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
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MMPI-2
Definition
widely used personality assessment to help diagnose disorders
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Reliability
Definition
attribute of a psychosexual logical test that gives consistent results
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Person-Situation Controversy
Definition
personality determines behavior to a situation and vice versa
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Definition
widely used personality test based on Jungian types
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Definition
assumption that another person's behavior (especially bad ones) are based off of a flaw in personality
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