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| An individual's characteric style of behaving, thinking, and feeling |
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| A series of answers to a questionaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statments oradjectives accurately describe their own behaviors |
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| Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory ( MMPI) |
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| Questionaire used to assess personality psychological problems |
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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 the resondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world trough the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people |
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| The traits of the five factor model: Conscientiousness, agreeable, neuroticism, openness, and extrversion |
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| An approach that regards personality as formed by needs, strivings, and desires, largely operating outside of awareness- motives that can also produce emotional disorders. |
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| An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires, and the person's inner feelings struggling to control forces. |
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| The part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires and impulses. |
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| The psychic force that motivates the tendency to seek immediate gradification of any impulse. |
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| The component of personality, developed through contact with the external world, that enables us to deal with life's practical demands |
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| The regulating mechanism that enabes the individual to delay gratifying immediate needs and function effectively in the real world |
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| The mental syaten that reflects the internalization of culture rules, mainly learned as parents exercise their authority, |
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| Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves supplying a reasonable-sounding explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal one's underlying motives or feelings |
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| A defense mechanism that involves unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of their opposite |
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| A defense mechanism that involves attributiong one's own threatening feelings, motives, or impulses to another person or group. |
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| A defense mechanism in which the ego deals with internal conflict and perceived threat by reverting to an immature behavior or earlier stage of development |
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| A defense mechanism that involves shiting unacceptable whishes or drives to a neutral or less-threatening alternative |
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| A defense mechanism that helps deal with feelings of threat and anxiety by enabling us unconsciously to take on the characteristics of another person who seems more powerful or better able to cope. |
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| A defense mechanism that involves channeling unacceptable sexual or aggressive drives into socially acceptable and culturally enhancing activities |
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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 pleasures. |
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| A phenonmenon in which a person's pleasure-seeking drives become stuck, or arrested, at a particular psychosexual stage. |
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| The first psychosexua 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 pleasures and frustrations associated with the anus, retention and expulsion of feces and urine, and toilet training. |
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| The third psychosexual stage, during which experience is dominated, during which experience is dominated by the pleasure, conflict, and frustration associated with the phallic-genital region as well as powerful incestuous feelings of love, hate, jealousy, and conflict |
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| A developmental experience in which a child's conflicting feelings toward the opposite sex parent is resolved by identifying with the same sex parent |
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| the fourth psychosexual stage, in which the primary focus is on the further development of intellectual, creative, interpersonal, and athletic skills. |
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| The final psychosexual stage, a time for the coming together of the mature adult personality with a capacity to love, work, and relate to others in a mutually satisfying and reciprocal manner |
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| Self- actualizing tendency |
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| the human motive toward realizing our inner potential |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| An attitude of nonjudgmental acceptance toward another person |
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| Social cognitive approach |
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| An approach that views personality in terms of how the person thinks about the situation encountered in daily life and behaves in response to them. |
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| Person-situation controversy |
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| The question of whether behavior is caused more by personality or by situational factors |
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| Dimensions people use in making sense of their experiences |
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| A person's assumptions about the likely consequences of a future behavior |
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| A person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the enviornment |
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| A person's explicit knowledge of his or her own behaviors, traits, and other personal characteristics. |
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| The tendency to seek evidence to confirm the self- concept. |
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| The extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self. |
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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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