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| Person's unique and relatively stable behavior pattern shaped by combined forces of biological, situational and mental processes |
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| Biologically-based; apparent in early childhood; raw material from which personality comes from; hereditary |
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| Stable qualities a person shows in most situations; guide thoughts and actions under various conditions |
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| What does OCEAN stand for? |
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| Openness to experience, conscientiousness (dependability), extroversion, agreeableness (likeability),neurcticism (emotional control) |
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| What are two ways OCEAN is measured? |
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| What are two important attributes of good psychological tests? |
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| What does reliability mean? |
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| What does validity stand for? |
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| Doing what it proposes to do |
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| What are the three drives/instincts? |
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| Life instinct, life-creative, life-giving instincts |
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| Energizes personality; drives us toward sensual pleasure |
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| Death instinct; produces aggressive and destructive behavior |
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| What are the three components of the Personality Structure? |
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| Conscience, values; morals learned from family, peers, society (Angel/Devil on shoulder) |
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| Conscious, rational part; keeping peace between Superego & Id |
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| What are the Psychosexual Stages? |
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| Successive, instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulations of specific bodily areas at different times of life |
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| Boys attracted to Mom; displace an erotic attraction and them move to females of their own age (fear of castration); identify with their fathers |
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| Mental process by which a person tries to become a person they admire |
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| Psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage ("getting stuck") |
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| Largely unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce anxiety |
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| What are the Ego Defense Mechanisms? |
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| Denial, Rationalize, Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation, Projection, & Displacement |
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| Returning to previous stage of development |
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| Put it away in the closet and close the door; unconscious forgetting |
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| Person acts out out unacceptable impulses in socially acceptable outlets |
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| One attributes one's unconscious desires onto other people or objects |
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| Take out impulses on a less-threatening object |
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| Personality assessment based on Freud's concept of projection (subjective in nature) |
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| Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT) |
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| Person has to tell story based on a picture (beginning, middle, end) [Find out about a person internally; common themes in the story] |
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| All mental & behavioral reactions are caused by unconscious desire or conflict; nothing we do is accidental |
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| Self you present to the world; choose to hide feelings; adapt to role; "public self" |
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| Collective Unconsciousness |
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| Reservoir for memories everyone has; universal |
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| Male archetype; unconscious ideal of men |
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| Female principle; unconscious ideal of women |
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| Destructive & aggressive tendencies we don't want to acknowledge existing |
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| What are the three patterns of behavior for dealing with anxiety? |
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| 1) Moving toward (Need for constant reminders of love & approval), 2) Moving against (Earn power & respect by completing & attacking), 3) Moving away from (individual closes themselves off from intimacy or support) |
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| Ideal self (who you'd like to be), self-image (subjective perception of how you see yourself), true self (how you actually are) |
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| Looks at positive & desirable aspects of human functioning |
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| Self-Actualizing Personalities |
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| Personally fulfilling potential; free to be creative; accepting of their own limitations |
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